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

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

Yesterday, I promised that I would 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 …

Blog recommendation – Disability Prejudice and Civil Rights Watch

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Alison at Disability Prejudice and Civil Rights Watch has been following the story of the Final Exit Network arrests/investigation. She gave a “shout out” to this blog regarding the coverage (or mis-coverage) of the radical arm of the “Right to Die” movement. In addition, she has her own observations to share, and I encourage others to read them, and an earlier post on the same subject. Links: Mainstream Media Not Covering What the Final Exit Net…

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

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It’s hard to know just where to begin with the pile of mush published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution yesterday by columnist Jay Bookman. “Time to pull suicide debate out of the shadows” starts out promisingly enough, accurately describes the 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…

Satire from “The Spoof” – Brit couple go for euthanasia

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A couple of items are needed to introduce this latest send-up from The Spoof, a web-based publication devoted to satire. First, there is a current story about a real-life couple from Britain who went to Switzerland and got “put down” together. Second, this isn’t the first time we’ve featured an article from The Spoof. In January of this year, we featured another one in a similar vein – by the same author. Here’s the latest – I’m really find of th…

Final Exit Network, Zealotry and Groupthink

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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.” In the Bizarro world of Egbert and company, it runs like this: “I (almost) never saw a suicide plea from someone who didn’t deserve to die.” From the article: …