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The Next Great Civil Right Most of us in this country will die some sort of managed death. Someone will inevitably make
decisions for us about our treatment as death approaches. Why not have that someone be YOU! There are currently three organizations in the USA promoting the right to die:
Final Exit Network (FEN) (http://www.finalexitnetwork.org); Compassion and Choices (C&C) (https://compassionandchoices.org), and Death with Dignity National Center (http://www.deathwithdignity.org).
The only such active groups in Tucson and Green Valley are the local Final Exit Network (FEN) groups. If you want me
to speak to your group about this issue, or want to contact Tucson FEN, please click here. David Hume said (in his Essays on Suicide
and the Immortality of the Soul): “That suicide may often be consistent with interest and with our duty to ourselves
no one can question, who allows that age, sickness, or misfortune may render life a burden, and make it worse than annihilation.”
After the sentence quoted above Hume adds “I
believe no man ever threw away life, while it was worth keeping. For such is our natural horror of death”, and Schopenhauer
makes the same observation “But the terrors of death offer considerable resistance….” Schopenhauer was also confident about the rationality of suicide, “It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life” (Parerga and Paralipomena).
“Making someone die in a way that others approve, but he believes is a horrifying contradiction of his life, is a devastating, odious form of tyranny.” Ronald Dworkin in Life’s Dominion
How to Join and Become a Member of Final
Exit Network: "Join us now so we may be with you later."
How Does Your Donation Help Final Exit Network? Your donation goes to our national Final Exit Network (FEN) organization, yet helps our Arizona Affiliate greatly. We are one of, if
not the most, active affiliates in the country. On the national level, your donations help with: FEN does not have any slick telemarketers, planned giving campaigns, or fundraising agents. Donations come by word of mouth. Please know that we thank you and are most appreciative of any donation you can give. We depend upon volunteers. If there is any other way you would like to help, please contact: John
Abraham, AZ FEN Affiliate Leader Two more ways your donations/memberships help: ● Your membership in FEN includes free use of the National US Living Will Registry. ● Your donations enable considerable training: now members who have no one else here may use well-equipped volunteers serving as Advocates. These are not Exit Guides. They are
what Arizona calls "Health Care Representative" or "Surrogate" who may take on Health Care Power of Attorney.
Thank you once again. "Be With Us Now so We May Be With You Later." Please consider including
FEN in your will.
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