Suicide is entitled to a helping hand.

It is a right especially because some cannot exercise it themselves. It is a right that some should not have to exercise alone. The Final Exit Network exists as support for those suffering from cancer, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Alzheimer, Huntington’s, multiple sclerosis,  muscular dystrophy,  emphysema,  congestive heart failure,  stroke, and AIDS, among other conditions.

To raise the awareness of all Americans concerning the basic human right … of competent adults to choose to end their lives on their own terms when they suffer from irreversible physical illness, intractable pain, or a constellation of chronic, progressive physical disabilities.

The criteria for support requires that:

1. You must be cognitively functional.

2. You must be physically strong enough to perform the required tasks.

3. You must have an irreversible, physical medical condition which causes intolerable suffering.

4. You must understand the “window of opportunity” which exists while you still have the mental and physical capability to perform the required activities.

5. You must be able to procure the items required for your use.

6. You must be approved by our Medical Director.

Through volunteers around the country, the Final Exit Network provides, to qualified individuals, guidance and education on procuring and administering the means and method of “self-deliverance,” and a supporting presence as the individual takes her own life.

A good death is one in which the individual lays down and falls asleep.

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