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To: Carolyn who wrote (16890)	2/1/2000 8:10:00 AM
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Here we go again: TV to air suicide how-to show 'Final Act' broadcast coming on Oregon cable channel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Julie Foster ¸ 2000 WorldNetDaily.com A television program describing the best methods for committing suicide -- so graphically that even proponents of Oregon's Death with Dignity law oppose its airing for fear it will lead to increased suicides -- is set to air later this week in the Eugene and Springfield area. "I think it's reckless," said Barbara Coombs Lee, executive director of the Portland-based Compassion in Dying Federation, of the planned broadcast of a how-to suicide video based on the best-selling book "Final Exit.". "It can give people the means to act on impulsiveness." Coombs Lee was among those involved in the campaign for Oregon's Death with Dignity law, which allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who request them. It is the only law of its kind in the United States. Derek Humphry, author of ``Final Exit' and founder of the Hemlock Society, said his goal in making the video was to help desperately ill people and their loved ones, not all of whom are accustomed to seeking help from libraries or books. He said his Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization has sold hundreds of copies of the video. The print version of ``Final Exit' has sold more than one million copies and has been printed in 12 languages. Hemlock Society spokesman Randy Teeuwen told WorldNetDaily, "I think it's important to emphasize that what [Humphry] talks about is a step-by-step process," rather than simply a suicide how-to manual. For example, Humphry advocates(cont) worldnetdaily.com