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Timothy Quill on the Final Exit Network – Is He Lying Deliberately or Just Incompetent?

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…onslaught of one-sided, sloppy, careless, misleading coverage of the Final Exit Network. It gets hard to know what to pick and where to begin. Today, though, one article jumped out through the pile of slush masquerading as journalism. It isn’t the worst example of coverage, but it contains what is possibly the most blatantly false claim about the Final Exit Network (FEN) “activities” and how the laws in Oregon and Washington State affect those act…

Transcript of Bax & Obrien Interview on Final Exit Network

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…ago Georgia Bureau of Investigation infiltrated a group called ‘The Final Exit Network’ and found out that this group would help people to facilitate their own suicides. Not only help them to put the plan together but would even be there when it happened and even hold down their hand, so hold down their arms so that the natural instinct to stop it wouldn’t take. On the phones right now is Stephen Drake from notyetdead.org and they are opposed to…

Time Magazine Article Misrepresents Final Exit Network and Who They “Help”

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…ould have some “nasty” things to say about an article concerning the Final Exit Network (FEN). I don’t know if what you’ll find below is “nasty,” but the March 2 article “Final Exit: Compassion or Assisted Suicide?” totally distorts and mangles the core facts of the story surrounding FEN. As a result, the ensuing discussion has nothing to do with the realities of a group that promoted itself on the premise that they alone were a group that would f…

Final Exit Network Members Await Jury Decision in One State (AZ) and Lose Court Challenge in Another (GA)

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The long-awaited trial of two members of the Final Exit Network (FEN) relating to their roles in the death of Jana Van Voorhis is all but over – it’s all in the hands of the jury now after a roughly week-long trial at the Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona. The only ongoing press coverage of the trial has been published in the Phoenix New Times. Paul Rubin, writing the reports, has been covering the death of Jana Van Voorhis and the result…

Georgia Disability Activists to Attend Arguments at GA Supreme Court Hearing on Final Exit Network

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…challenge to Georgia’s assisted suicide law filed by members of the Final Exit Network. The group claims that the law does not actually prohibit assisted suicide but does violate the First Amendment right to free speech. Three disability rights groups from Georgia will be attending the hearing today, and handing out informational flyers on the activities of the Final Exit Network and why the group needs to be stopped. The double-sided one page fl…