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PBS Airs Frontline “The Suicide Plan” – Video Tape Exposes Final Exit Network’s Big Lie

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…RRATOR: An agent posing as a man dying of pancreatic cancer had applied to Final Exit Network for help. GBI AGENT: —expecting a visit from Ted Goodwin of Final Exit Network. The purpose of this visit is to provide assistance in committing suicide. PENNY PENN: The undercover sting showed what the rest of the— the facts intimated. GBI AGENT: Want something to drink, Ted? TED GOODWIN: I just had some water— PENNY PENN: It was consistent with the trai…

Blast From the Past – 2009 Musings on Final Exit Network, Zealotry and Groupthink

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…the article itself should be available for purchase through the AJC site.) Final Exit Network, Zealotry and Groupthink March 10, 2009 | posted by Stephen Drake The latest story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution centers on Dr. Lawrence Egbert, the “medical director” of Final Exit Network (FEN). According to the AJC, Egbert’s own words describe him as some sort of Bizarro-world version of Will Rogers, who said “I never met a man I didn’t like.”…

AP Story Quotes NDY on Final Exit Network

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…solution to the “coat hanger” was the legalization of abortion. Since the Final Exit Network openly provides “help” to people who are NOT terminally ill, she has to be testing the waters here – and indicating a new willingness to move to a broader agenda in terms of legalization. After all, the kinds of people that Final Exit Network “helps” wouldn’t be eligible in Oregon. It would take a much more expansive law to put them out of business, using…

Georgia: Response Letters to op-ed by Final Exit Network (FEN) president Wendell Stephenson

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…le to every person and improve on the quality of that care. Nowhere on the Final Exit Network’s website could I find where there was any support for families. The couple mentioned in this piece made a decision about how they wished to spend the end of their lives. Hospice did not help them make this decision and did not help them carry it out. Hospice helped them return to their family’s residence and provided them with physical and emotional supp…

Minnesota: Some Charges Against Final Exit Members Thrown Out, Two Defendants and Serious Charges Remain

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…There are still serious charges against the two remaining defendants: The Final Exit Network and the two remaining defendants still face serious charges: Lawrence Egbert, 84, who worked as Final Exit Network’s medical director, reviewed applications from people wishing to end their lives. Prosecutors say Egbert flew to Minnesota the day Dunn died. Egbert has been charged with two felony counts of assisting in a suicide, and two misdemeanors count…