Final Exit Network in the News – Reframing Themselves and Erasing the Past

December 22, 2009Arizona, assisted suicide, final exit network, homicide, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality checkStephen Drake

…etwork will be there to support those who need relief from their suffering today!” “The Network’s Exit Guide Program is available nationwide,” Goodwin said. “With the Network’s compassionate guidance and support, physically and emotionally competent adults in all fifty states are free to exercise their last human right – the right to a peaceful, dignified death. “Final Exit Network is the only organization in the United States that will support in…

Massachusetts: Good News on Mass. Medical Society – Organization reaffirms opposition to assisted suicide

December 5, 2011assisted suicide, john kelly, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Medical Society, Our News & Commentary BlogStephen Drake

…ty, the statewide association of physicians with more than 23,000 members, today voted to reaffirm its opposition to physician-assisted suicide, with its House of Delegates voting by a wide margin to maintain a policy the Society has had in effect since 1996. Opposition to physician-assisted suicide was part of a larger policy statement that includes recognition of patient dignity at the end of life and the physician’s role in caring for terminall…

Big News: Final Exit Network Activist Enters Guilty Plea in Arizona – Agrees to Testify Against Other Defendants

January 12, 2010Arizona, crime and punishment, final exit network, media coverage, Our News & Commentary BlogStephen Drake

This could be very important news. Wye Hale-Rowe, a long time assisted suicide activist and advocate, has entered a guilty plea in Arizona to a charge of “facilitation to commit manslaughter.” The longest and most detailed coverage of Hale-Rowe’s plea is in the Phoenix New Times, an independent paper that originally broke the story of the investigation that led to the arrests of Hale-Rowe and three other individuals, all “exit guides” in the Fina…

Lisa Blumberg: Life, Liberty and Security in Canada – Is this the way we are headed?

January 16, 2020"death with dignity", aid in dying, assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia, Lisa Blumberg, Our News & Commentary Blog, Toujours Vivant-Not Dead Yetaid in dying, assisted suicide, Canada, death with dignity, euthanasia, MAID, Toujours Vivant/Not Dead Yet CanadaDiane Coleman

…port , November-December 2002 https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/trudeau-defends-use-of-two-planes-calls-tory-criticism-a-far-right-tactic https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/quebec-patients-to-take-their-time-after-winning-right-to-die http://www.slaw.ca/2019/09/17/challenging-the-quebec-end-of-life-legislation-and-medically-assisted-dying-in-truchon/ https://www.aacpdm.org/UserFiles/file/fact-sheet-spine-072415.pdf https:/…

The Death of Christina Symanski – John Kelly and Bill Peace on Media, Perspective, Wrong Questions and Ignored Issues

February 17, 2012bill peace, Christina Symanski, dehydration, john kelly, media coverage, media issues, Our News & Commentary Blog, quadriplegia, starvation, suicide, VSEDStephen Drake

…l significance of her death. This is exactly what you will not find in the news stories that I have read over the last few days. The first newspaper to write about Symanski was the New Jersey Star Ledger. This story was picked up by the UK’s Daily Mail and then the Huffington Post. I expect the news of Symanski’s death will go viral over the weekend and be picked up by hundreds of news outlets. I have no doubt she will be lauded for choosing to di…