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Saturday Sep 12, 2009 #
City biking 2:15:00 [2] 27.0 mi (5:00 / mi) +10m 5:00 / mi
Around Chicago on a fresh and sunny late summer day: to Humboldt Park for a TreeKeepers class on saving and maintaining urban trees; to Farmers' Market for fresh corn and tomatoes; up to Skokie for a lecture on assisted suicide from Dr Larry Egbert, one of the Final Exit "guides" arrested in Georgia for assisting the suicide of a FBI decoy. That guy may be 81, but he sure doesn't look it.
It is incredible how a group such as Final Exit can be hounded out of existance by authorities. Since his arrest, Dr Egbert has lost most of his teaching and consulting positions...just because of his association with this group. And 80% of the group's "guides" have resigned, fearing similar prosecution.
We all agreed that the primary message Final Exit had to deliver was that of Freedom of Choice...ensuring that terminally ill people know that they have the freedom to shorten their painful years with doctor-assisted suicide. Yet even the ACLU won't take up this cause.
I've already given this group a couple thou, to make sure there's a "guide" available when/if needed. But confronting the age of 70 with a terminal illness, without such options, strikes me as purely medieval.
It is incredible how a group such as Final Exit can be hounded out of existance by authorities. Since his arrest, Dr Egbert has lost most of his teaching and consulting positions...just because of his association with this group. And 80% of the group's "guides" have resigned, fearing similar prosecution.
We all agreed that the primary message Final Exit had to deliver was that of Freedom of Choice...ensuring that terminally ill people know that they have the freedom to shorten their painful years with doctor-assisted suicide. Yet even the ACLU won't take up this cause.
I've already given this group a couple thou, to make sure there's a "guide" available when/if needed. But confronting the age of 70 with a terminal illness, without such options, strikes me as purely medieval.