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…

Great News: Minna Mettinen-Kekalainen’s Home Care to Resume Monday (Feb. 2, 2009)

January 29, 2009activism, advocacy, als, Canada, Our News & Commentary Blog, palliative care, policyStephen Drake

…t Minna Mettinen-Kekalainen’s home care will resume this coming Monday (February 2, 2009). As I said, there are several reports, but it’s only fitting to highlight the Sudbury Star article by Carol Mulligan. Mulligan originally broke this story and continued to push it into the public consciousness. From the story: Starting Monday, a Sudbury woman suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease will begin receiving the home nursing care she needs. The North E…

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

…cts: Ted Goodwin, President Marietta, GA Jerry Dincin, PhD, Vice President News For Immediate Release Washington State Passes I-1000! November 5, 2008 Olympia, WA Although the supporters of Initiative I-1000 are delighted that Washington becomes the second state to pass a “Death with Dignity Act”, there is much more work to be done. Ted Goodwin, President of Final Exit Network, said, “We congratulate all those who worked so hard to achieve this im…

BBC – Liz Carr Presents ‘When Assisted Death is Legal” (Euthanasia Road Trip) Part 2

February 22, 2013assisted suicide, BBC, documentary, euthanasia, Liz Carr, Netherlands, Oregon, Our News & Commentary Blog, VSED, Washington stateStephen Drake

Correcting an oversight in yesterday’s blog post, to the left is a picture of Liz Carr, shared with her permission, that was taken as she arrived at the “Holy Grail of assisted suicide tourism, the Little Blue House aka Dignitas” (taken from her description of the photo on Facebook). In Part 2 of her Euthanasia Road Trip, Carr visits the Netherlands and then goes to the US states of Oregon and Washington, which both have legalized assisted suicid…

Nat Hentoff on Obama and Schiavo

March 28, 2008life-ending decisions, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog, politics, schiavoStephen Drake

…here – when Hentoff talks about “mainstream media” I hope he is including Fox News Channel along with MSNBC and other “mainstream” sources. Fox News was every bit as guilty as other networks in terms of framing the fight for Terri Schiavo’s life as a “culture wars” controversy as the other networks were. This wasn’t “liberal” bias – the right and the left worked in tandem on this – and in a way that kept the perspectives and involvement of disabi…