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		<title>Ruling: Doctor-assisted suicide legal in Montana</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/01/assisted-suicide-montana-26881/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg News/Business Week, AP/New York Times: Montana&#8217;s Supreme Court has ruled that physician-assisted suicide is legal in the state, and that doctors cannot be prosecuted for helping mentally competent people with terminal illnesses to end their lives. The ruling makes Montana the third state, after Oregon and Washington, to allow the practice. &#8220;We find nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>England relaxes rules on assisted suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/23/relaxes-rules-suicide-22886/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prosecutions unlikely in cases of terminal illness or &#8216;severe and incurable physical disability&#8217; From the Wall Street Journal,  New York Times, [UK] Times, BBC: England&#8217;s top prosecutor has made it easier for people to help a terminally ill or disabled person kill themself, handing a victory to advocates of assisted suicide. Keir Starmer, director of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: &#8216;GovernmentCare&#8217;s Assault on Seniors&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/23/governmentcare%e2%80%99s-20555/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/23/governmentcare%e2%80%99s-20555/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Betsy McCaughey says Congress is rushing to approve legislation that will &#8220;reduce access to care, pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely, and doom baby boomers to painful later years.&#8221; At the core of McCaughey&#8217;s concern is comparative effectiveness research, which can be used to limit care based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide couple prompt new debate</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/15/conductor-assisted-suicide-20125/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the BBC News and New York Times: The deaths of noted British conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife, Joan, have reopened  an international debate about assisted suicide for the terminally ill. The pair drank a lethal cocktail of barbituates at the Swiss right-to-die clinic, Dignitas. Friends said that Sir Edward, 85, was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couple&#8217;s suicide puts spotlight on caregivers</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/10/puttick-suicide-18152/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragic double suicide of a British couple after the death of their disabled son has sparked a passionate national discussion about the availability of supports for the more than six million people in the UK who provide informal or unpaid care for relatives and friends. Neil and Kazumi Puttick had given up their jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man with disabilities lives to defend right to die</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/18/chicago-man-12261/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP/Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, A suburban Chicago man with disabilities, whose February 26 assisted suicide plans were put on hold after the Final Exit Network arrests last month, says he has found a new reason to live: defending the right-to-die movement. Kurt Perry, 26, is diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), described as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia group revives right-to-die debate</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/02/assisted-suicide-controversy-10755/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helps people end their lives even if they&#8217;re not terminally ill From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Associated Press: Critics say a Georgia-based  group is undermining efforts to win national acceptance for assisted suicide by aiding in the deaths of people who are not terminally ill. Members of the group Final Exit say they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books: &#8216;The Last Goodnights&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/20/books-the-last-goodnights-10196/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/20/books-the-last-goodnights-10196/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Marshall, writing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reviews &#8216;The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with their Suicides,&#8217; by John West. Trial attorney West gives a &#8220;harrowing and hearbreaking&#8221; account of his experiences helping his parents commit suicide, Marshall says. West&#8217;s father was Louis Jolyon &#8220;Jolly&#8221; West, former chair of the psychiatry department at UCLA, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman loses UK assisted suicide case</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/20/uk-assisted-suicide-10191/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judges hint at leniency for her husband From the [UK] Guardian: A British woman with multiple sclerosis has failed in her attempt to get the courts to clarify the assisted suicide law. Debbie Purdy had wanted an assurance that her husband, Cuban violinist Omar Puente, would not face prosecution if he accompanied her to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No charges brought in assisted suicide case</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/12/10/no-charges-assisted-suicide-5776/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Times: The parents of a young UK rugby star who took their son to a suicide clinic in Switzerland will not face charges. Authorities said there was sufficient evidence to prosecute Mark and Julie James under the Suicide Act of 1961, but that a prosecution would not be in the public interest. [...]]]></description>
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