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Assisted suicide network members indicted in Georgia [The Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_assisted_suicide_network.html

Greg Bluestein reports that: The four indicted in the Georgia case are scheduled to be arraigned April 1, said Forsyth County District Attorney Penny Penn. She said prosecutors were pleased with the indictments, which came more than a dozen witnesses testified at a grand jury hearing.

Bluestein went on to say: The case highlighted a rift in the right-to-die movement. Final Exit Network leaders say the group helped not only people with terminal illnesses, but also those who were suffering but not necessarily dying. Critics within the movement, including Dr. Jack Kevorkian, have said people should be able to seek assistance ending their lives, but only from doctors and only if they are terminally ill.

Humphry: Now the laws on assisted suicide for the dying can be clarified [World right-to-die news list]
http://lists.opn.org/pipermail/right-to-die_lists.opn.org/2010-March/003794.html

Derek Humphry writes: I welcome this case at last coming to trial (probably early next year) so that the law in the USA can be clarified on whether it is acceptable to help competent adults who are in terminal suffering and wish to die. It is likely to become the most significant case on this particular issue ever tested in this country…. If you wish to support the Final Exit Network in its battle against the forces of darkness, visit its website at www.finalexitnetwork.org

Final Exit Network Billboard campaign [New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/10/us/AP-US-Assisted-Suicide-Network.html

Jerry Dincin said Tuesday that the Final Exit Network has been preparing for the trial for more than a year:

He became the group's leader after then-president Ted Goodwin and three other members were arrested in Georgia in February 2009. The four members and the group itself were indicted Tuesday by a Forsyth County grand jury. Dincin says the group has not been involved in any suicides since it was charged but that it plans to put up billboards this year in California and New Jersey. They will read:
"Good Life. Good Death. Your Choice."

Georgia grand jury indicts two Baltimore men [The Baltimore Sun]
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-assisted-suicide0310,0,1306493.story

Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert, a physician affiliated with Johns Hopkins, and Nicholas Alec Sheridan, a legislative aide to a Maryland lawmaker, were arrested in Baltimore in February 2009 in the case, along with then-president Ted Goodwin and another Georgia member. All four and the group itself were indicted Tuesday by a Forsyth County grand jury.

Atlanta: the Final Exit Network prosecution [EuthaNEWSia, The Atlanta Magazine]
http://www.euthanewsia.ca/archive/2010/03/enid201003029490.4.html

Atlanta Magazine tells the story behind the assisted suicide charges brought against members of the Final Exit Network (FEN). On June 19, 2008, John Celmer ended his life with helium inhalation in the presence of two FEN Exit Guides. Celmer had undergone a disfiguring series of surgeries for oral cancer.

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