Georgia arrests revive assisted-suicide debate

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A sting nets three members of Final Exit, a group that tells sick people how to end their own lives. Three states have legalized assisted suicide, and others have introduced bills to do likewise.
By Richard Fausset
February 27, 2009
Reporting from Atlanta -- The man told Thomas Goodwin he wanted to kill himself to end the pain of pancreatic cancer. But first he wanted to go downstairs to get a photograph of his wife.

So Goodwin -- president of Final Exit Network, one of the nation's most prominent assisted-suicide groups -- waited in the bedroom for the man to return.

Instead, Goodwin was surprised by agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who burst in and arrested him Wednesday. They also opened a new front in a resurgent war over assisted suicide.

more:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-assisted-suicide27-2009feb27,0,5576381.story

[BOSSHOG]

1. My two cents worth

Anybody opposed to assisted suicide should be locked up in an alzheimer's ward of a nursing home for six months and then share their views on the quality of life. If I am terminal (or in some similar situation) let my family grieve now and not be financially ruined because some zealot a thousand miles away values my life.

[grannie4peace]

2. my brother took his life last october & he used one of the books that final exit

published. i have that book now. i read some of it but it is hard to read. i was thankful for the book because he died in his own bed. i felt his spirit as he was dying, it's a really heavy trip.but no one leaves here alive :)