Society’s Challenge: Finding a better way to die

Media attention on the Final Exit Network assisted-suicide ring and other right-to-die cases results in people talking for awhile about death and dying. And while there has to be a better way to exit this world than with a plastic bag over one’s head, don’t look to the law to resolve the complex moral and ethical questions about how we die. Individuals must make and discuss their own wishes.

by William H. Colby

On Feb. 25, 2009, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) arrested four members of an alleged “assisted suicide ring” called the Final Exit Network. The GBI conducted an undercover operation for nearly a year, eventually carrying out searches of 14 sites in nine different states.
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