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March 8, 2020March 16, 2022

The slippery slope, voluntary decision-making, and equal protection

Slippery slope arguments deny rationality, moral precepts, and legal principles. Few of us who believe in a right to die go beyond the formulation of this right as a voluntary decision of one person about that person's life. The view that no one has the right to take from us the liberty to make such decisions to end our lives except ourselves appears to be the norm in this society for those who are near the end of their lives because of disease or condition. Voluntariness is inextricably bound up with the decision to die to escape suffering near the end of life. (Continue reading ...)

March 1, 2020March 16, 2022

“Self-death” (suicide) as a natural right

A brief look at suicide historically, philosophically, constitutionally, legally, and practically as a right to all who value liberty. (Continue reading ...)

February 23, 2020

Deciding when suicide is a rational choice

How the Final Exit Network works to make hastening one's own death a rational endeavor–a review of the process. (Continue reading ...)

July 28, 2019July 28, 2019

A Self-Deliverance in California

Jim Van Buskirk relates a poignant experience that led to his joining the Final Exit Network. (Continue reading ...)

July 14, 2019March 16, 2022

A non-medical model for a self-controlled death?

In a newly-produced short film, Philip Nitschke argues for a non-medical model to replace the medical model for a self-controlled death. His argument is compelling. If we have a right to a self-controlled death, we should not have to ask permission from doctors to honor that right. As he has said, "You don't have to be a doctor to understand dying." (Continue reading ...)

June 10, 2019March 16, 2022

Two Views, One Exit

Two participants, one an exit guide and one a friend, look at the same voluntary exit and report their experiences, emotions. (Continue reading ...)

June 2, 2019

OK, I Want to Exit. What’s Next?

John Abraham explains the process to receive educational and training services from the Final Exit Network if you are considering a self-controlled death. (Continue reading ...)

November 19, 2018March 16, 2022

FEN Needs Volunteers

Huck DeVenzio, FEN's Newsletter Editor, explains the role of volunteers within FEN and the need for volunteers. (Continue reading ...)

July 23, 2018March 16, 2022

Death With Dignity from a personal perspective

Jim Waun, a retired anesthesiologist, shares some of his personal experiences that led him to support the Death With Dignity movement and the Final Exit Network (FEN), and he explains how FEN's Exit Guide program works. (Continue reading ...)

December 30, 2017March 18, 2022

Dying in the Americas Conference

Final Exit Network announces Dying in the Americas 2018, a conference devoted to re-imagining the future of dying with the objective of a peaceful death for everyone. The conference will take place March 21 to March 25, 2018, in the peaceful setting of the Hilton Lake Las Vegas Resort & Spa in Henderson, Nevada, in the foothills outside Las Vegas. The program is open to academics, health care professionals, physicians, nurses, geriatric social workers, Thanatologists, hospice and nursing facility personnel, palliative care specialists, insurance and government professionals, and those interested in improving the quality of the dying experience for both the patient and family. (Continue reading ...)

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