Search Results for: final exit network

Maryland: New Factually-Impaired Op-Ed from Final Exit Network – and My Response

assisted suicide, Compassion & Choices, Conflation and Con jobs, crime and punishment, final exit network, media coverage, op-ed, Our News & Commentary Blog

…published a commentary by Jerry Dincin, the current president of the Final Exit Network (FEN). You never know what a FEN member is going to write – sometimes they make it sound like they only deal with “terminally ill” people, sometimes they claim to give only “advice,” – they’re kind of all over the board in terms of what they’ve written and said over the past year. In this particular case, Dincin was pretty open about who FEN “helps” — anyone wi…

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Columnist Asks All the Wrong Questions About Lessons to be Learned from Final Exit Network

assisted suicide, James T. Hall, Larry McAfee, media coverage, media issues, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality check

…he practices and “eligibility” criteria necessary to get “help” from Final Exit Network. That puts him way ahead of Time magazine, for example, but that is a particularly low bar to clear. Having summarized the story of the arrests, investigations with a degree of competence, Bookman veers into territory loaded with his own personal prejudices and baggage: For example, do my inalienable rights as a human being extend to the right to self-destructi…

Final Exit Network Members Passing Off “Boilerplate” Op-eds As Original Work?

ethics, final exit network, media coverage, media issues, Our News & Commentary Blog

The possibility that members of the Final Exit Network are passing off boilerplate op-eds as original work may seem trivial. After all, this is a group of people whose “hobby” – like bridge (see below for an explanation) – is to plan and preside over the deaths of multiple strangers. In spite of this (to put it mildly) creepy pastime, the FEN members are aggressively claiming the moral high ground. So, in terms of the ethical standards of FEN mem…

Minnesota: Grand Jury Issues 17-Count Indictment Against 4 Final Exit Network Members

assisted suicide, crime and punishment, final exit network, indictments, Jerry Dincin, lawrence egbert, Minnesota, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality check

…nced Monday. The 17-count indictment charges the medical director of Final Exit Network, Lawrence Egbert of Baltimore, and three other officials with felony counts of assisting suicide and interference with a death scene, a gross misdemeanor. It also charged the New Jersey-based group in its corporate capacity. “This investigation and prosecution is not a politically motivated attack on the right-to-die movement,” Dakota County prosecutor James Ba…

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

assisted suicide, crime and punishment, final exit network, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog

…into the death of Jana Van Voorhis, reports that four members of the Final Exit Network have been arrested. 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…