Final Exit Network in the News – Reframing Themselves and Erasing the Past

December 22, 2009Arizona, assisted suicide, final exit network, homicide, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality checkStephen Drake

…n lives, said Robert Rivas, an attorney for the New Jersey-based nonprofit organization. “Final Exit Network would rather never do what they do,” Rivas said. “If assisted-suicide laws were in existence in every state we’d be happy to completely be phased out.” What assisted laws would those be, I wondered. As we’ve mentioned before here, the organization issued a press release in November 2008 that stated the assisted suicide laws in Oregon and Wa…

Chicago NDY Visits Final Exit Network’s Annual Meeting

June 9, 2009activism, assisted suicide, crime and punishment, devaluation, discrimination, final exit network, Our News & Commentary Blog, reality checkStephen Drake

…ercise their last human right — the right to a peaceful, dignified death. “Final Exit Network is the only organization in the United States that will support individuals who are not “terminally ill” – 6 months or less to live – to hasten their deaths. No other organization in the US makes this commitment,” said Goodwin. Please note – that statement says very clearly that they will help, anyone, anywhere who “needs” their help – including Washingto…

Georgia NDY/Disability Activist on Fox5 Coverage in Atlanta – Final Exit Network

March 19, 2009advocacy, assisted suicide, final exit network, media coverage, Our News & Commentary Blog, suicideStephen Drake

…icide an act of compassion, others call it criminal. Four members of the Georgia-based Final Exit Network were arrested in February for assisted suicide in the death of a Cumming cancer patient. The Final Exit Network is a right to die advocacy group. The group’s president said members will only support certain people with incurable or intolerable conditions, but insisted it wasn’t assisted suicide. At 26-years-old, one Chicago man suffers from an…

Arizona Daily Star: Derek Humphry and Columnist Push “New Frontier” on Assisted Suicide

November 4, 2013Arizona, assisted suicide, Derek Humphry, final exit network, george exoo, media coverage, media issues, Our News & Commentary Blog, suicide, suicide preventionArizona, assisted suicide, Derek Humphry, Final Exit Network, George Exoo, Jana Van Voorhis, media issues, suicide, suicide prevention, Tim StellerStephen Drake

…other-in-Law: The man that was supposed to be the medical director of this Final Exit Network organization received actually nothing from any medical personnel, nothing from a hospital, nothing from a doctor. He received a little handwritten thing about her exposure to rat poisoning, bugs eating her, and some of the illnesses she did have over the previous 20, 25, 30 years. How this so-called medical director didn’t say, “Something is really wrong…

Transcript of Bax & Obrien Interview on Final Exit Network

March 16, 2009assisted suicide, crime and punishment, final exit network, media coverage, Our News & Commentary BlogStephen Drake

…on, here it is: Intro: A little while ago now, I’m not sure how long 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 rig…