Final Exit Network

My Family Is Crazier Than Your Family. No, Really.

Teresa Strasser | Posted 08.27.2011

Teresa Strasser

When people talk about their "crazy" families, it really brings out my competitive nature. Unless your aunt suffocated herself with a plastic bag per the instructions in a paperback version of "Final Exit," your people just aren't that crazy.

Elderly Couple Fulfills Death Pact

The Durango Herald | Shane Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

An Arizona couple followed through with a decades-long plan to end their lives before the ravages of old age took their toll. Lansing C. Holden, 83, ...

Right-To-Die Billboard Raises Concerns

Religion News Service | By Steve Strunsky | Posted 05.25.2011

By Steve Strunsky Religion News Service HILLSIDE, N.J. (RNS) The huge black billboard is hard to miss, looming over a stretch of Route 22 like a harb...

Final Exit Network: 4 Members Of Assisted Suicide Group Arrested

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

ATLANTA — Joining the Final Exit Network costs $50, and the privileges of membership include this: When you're ready to die, the organization wi...

Nobody Gets Arrested for Assisted Suicide in Oregon

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 11.17.2011

Tom D'Antoni

Thankfully, none of us in Oregon have to face either arrest nor a terribly painful lingering death if we don't want to. The voters twice agreed to our Death with Dignity law.