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...person inhales only that gas instead of oxygen. The authorities have also frozen the group's assets, effectively putting it out of commission. Four of the group's members - including its medical director, Dr. Lawrence Egbert, who lives in Baltimore - were charged last week in the death of a Georgia man in June. (See pictures of cults that went wacko...
Although assisted suicide is illegal in most states, voters in Washington State and Montana voted late last year to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Oregon has had a physician-assisted suicide law since 1994, and New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New Mexico are considering whether to pass similar laws. In Georgia, however, assisted suicide is a felony, and members of Final Exit could face up to five years in prison if convicted of that charge. They also face three years for evidence-tampering and 20 years for racketeering...
...risk we take when we're willing to walk that fine line between what a jurisdiction might call assisted suicide and what we might call compassionate presence," he says. "But whose life is it anyway? I know that my life is mine. It doesn't belong to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation or any religious entity or any person. It belongs to me, and I have the right in extreme circumstances to take...
...million a year for the next five years through donations and fees from local church groups and high schools that rent out vacant classrooms or the fallow football stadium in the off-season. Two band camps have already signed on to use the campus this summer. A change in Georgia law last year approved state financial aid for students at schools that, like Morris Brown, are on the road to reaccreditation; it's one reason Pritchett has set an enrollment goal of 1,000 students in 2014, which would translate to a significant tuition revenue increase. Whether similar fudging will...
...such largesse after that season by giving Kevin Brown, a pitcher soon to turn 34 years old, an age when players traditionally had neared retirement as their bodies gave out, a seven-year contract worth $105 million, sweetening the deal with private jet service back and forth from his Georgia home...