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PENNINGTON, N.J., June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Final Exit Network continues the roll-out of billboards on the nation's highways - Chicago, Denver and in Los Angeles. These follow others that have been placed in San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, New Jersey and Florida. The message is simply "Irreversible illness? Unbearable Pain? Die with Dignity ... Join Final Exit Network." Those who view the billboards are encouraged to be in touch with their local media...

SACRAMENTO, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by Californians Against Assisted Suicide. While the action by law enforcement to shut down a troubling helium-hood assisted suicide kit business operating in San Diego County is a positive development, there are still groups and organizations promoting the spread of assisted suicide as mainstream public policy. The practice of assisted suicide, legal only in Oregon and Washington, presents very real and dangerous...

PENNINGTON, N.J., Jan. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- This week an interview with Final Exit Network President Dr. Jerry Dincin will begin to play on more than 4000 airline flights during January and February, throughout the Americas and Europe. Along with these interviews spot announcements will run on television monitors in 48 American airports. The interview stresses the information and compassionate support Final Exit Network provides to mentally competent adult members who suffer from an...

PENNINGTON, N.J., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Final Exit Network continues the rollout of billboards on the nation's highways and in the night sky, to help raise public awareness and promote a dialogue on the right to die with dignity. During the last two weekends of October the evening sky will be lit up shortly after nightfall over Baltimore and Washington. The scrolling message of "Die with Dignity" and the organization's contact information will be carried by a helicopter on a...

Despite fears to the contrary, the use of drugs to end life without patient request has not increased since euthanasia was legalized in Belgium, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are controversial issues in the medical world. There are fears that the legalization of euthanasia will result in an increase in the use of life-ending drugs without explicit patient request, especially for vulnerable people such as...

FERNDALE, Mich., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- VW parts expert Jack Finn is putting Jack Kevorkian's infamous "death bus" on the auction block. Kevorkian allegedly used the bus for assisting terminal patients in committing suicide. Finn, who sold VW parts to Kevorkian over several years, purchased the notorious Volkswagen van in 1997 prior to Kevorkian's incarceration. Finn has been storing the 1968 Volkswagen Bus/Vanagon unused in a warehouse in what he describes as basically the same condition...

KINGSTON, N.J., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The debate over physician-assisted suicide and the right of incurably suffering people to end their own lives has again been brought to national attention by the HBO premiere of "You Don't Know Jack," on the HBO pay-channel, April 24th. The film is based on the book "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia," by Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie. Jerry Dincin, president of Final Exit Network (FEN),...

It is time to discard the word euthanasia because it mixes ideas and values that confuses the debate about dying, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)."The end of life debate seems particularly burdened by confusion over the term 'euthanasia'," writes Dr. Ken Flegel, Senior Associate Editor and Dr. Paul Hébert, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Medical Association Journal. "Both sides use it to further their ideological views: one side says murder, the...

Hundreds of foreigners choose every year to end their life in an ordinary building nestled by the railroad tracks, just east of Zurich. Many who end their life are terminally ill, but some are young and physically healthy except for a permanent disability or severe, debilitating mental disorder.Switzerland is known around the world as a somewhat easy place for foreigners to end their lives.  More than 100 Germans, Britons, French, Americans and others come to this small commuter town each...

Judge Dorothy McCarter ruled late Friday that doctor-assisted suicides are legal in the state of Montana.  However, the decision is likely to be appealed on the basis that the Legislature, rather than the state, should determine whether terminally ill patients have the right to take their own lives.The ruling involved the case of a Billings man with terminal cancer who, together with four physicians and a nonprofit patients' rights organization, had sued the state.  "The Montana...