Breaking News – Swiss Euthanasia Organization Being Investigated for Possible Profiteering

…t wrong, aren’t you?” I said. “And help someone who shouldn’t be helped.” Susan shrugged. “Probably, at some point, yes,” she said. I guess that there are folks (Ronson was one of them) who are shocked to find such blatant bottomfeeders as “Susan” in the euthanasia movement. That’s just because they don’t know the movement well enough. Back to Switzerland and the current story on Dignitas, there’s this “bring it on” tidbit from the head of the org…

Breaking News: Four Final Exit Network Members Busted on “Conspiracy to Commit Murder” Charges in Arizona

…ed. Van Voorhis had minor physical complaints, but had a long history of struggles with psychological and emotional issues. From the article: Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced a few minutes ago that investigators from his office have busted four people on murder charges in the 2005 “assisted suicide” death of a seriously mentally ill Phoenix woman. New Times broke the news of this unusual and tragic case in 2007 in an extensive piec…

Answering Some of Roger Ebert’s (and Kevorkian’s) Fans

…g resistance after initial success was due to our role as agents of deconstruction. Deconstruction serves our interests as a community, since the current paradigm doesn’t allow for our part in the debates over assisted suicide and euthanasia at all – unless it’s an individual disabled person asking to be killed. What do you think the word collaboration should mean? You talk about collaboration as an overlap of concerns. But you hint that this coll…

Breaking News: Jack Kevorkian in Hospital

…appointed that Kevorkian would be released in June. “We won’t forget the struggling disabled people he preyed upon. And we won’t be silent,” the group said in a statement. It added that it expected that the 78-year-old Kevorkian, after leaving prison, will show a “near-miraculous `recovery’” from his health problems, which include diabetes, hepatitis C, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries in his brain and vertigo, according to his attor…