[Right_to_die] Absence of right to die laws breeds underground activities -- Roland Halpern

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Were it seen in the United States, Irish journalist Jon Ronson’s 
documentary Reverend Death might revive a national conversation about 
assisted suicide. Chronicling the actions of minister George Exoo, who 
helps people take their own lives. The film goes to the center of an 
issue that has flown below the radar ever since Jack Kevorkian, the 
Michigan pathologist, flashily campaigned for terminal patients’ right 
to die. Joyce Gemperlein continues to uncover the highly contentious 
points of view today in Obit Magazine [http://www.obit-mag.com.

Roland Halpern, director of community relations for Compassion & 
Choices, an advocacy and education organization for the terminally ill 
who want to end their lives, decries Exoo’s activities.

“You have such underground things because we don’t have aid-in-dying 
legislation.” Halpern says. Operations such as Exoo’s “diminish the 
whole purpose of working with terminally ill patients to explore all of 
their end-of-life options.”

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