Elderly Woman Pleads Guilty Plea Today in Phoenix "Assisted-Suicide" Case

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Wye Hale-Rowe, 81, pled guilty yesterday in Maricopa County Superior Court to facilitation to commit manslaughter, a felony. Hale-Rowe was one of the four Final Exit Network (FEN) volunteers charged in the 2007 Phoenix, Arizona death of Jana Van Voorhis, a 58-year-old Phoenix woman who died of helium inhalation. Hale-Rowe is a retired family therapist and great-grandmother who now lives in Michigan, and was a FEN exit guide in 2007.

In striking a plea deal with county prosecutors, Hale-Rowe agreed to testify against the three remaining defendants in the case, an aged Scottsdale man who allegedly also assisted Van Voorhis in killing herself, and two senior Final Exit officials from out of state. Hale-Rowe told us in 2007 that the late Van Voorhis "was in the throes of what we call existential suffering. Even though their physical pain may be managed, just being alive is a burden [to such people]. They're not able to function much with reference to other people."

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Rubin, Paul. "Elderly Woman Pleads Guilty Plea Today in Phoenix "Assisted-Suicide" Case". Phoenix New Times. Mon., Jan. 11 2010 3:54PM. <blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/01/guilty_plea_today_in_phoenix_a.php>. Phoenix New Times, PO Box 2510, Phoenix, AZ 85002, U.S.A.

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  • assisted suicide

  • Final Exit Network

  • Arizona

  • U.S.A.

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