Posted on 01/12/2010 4:18:33 PM PST by wagglebee
Phoenix, AZ (LifeNews.com) -- A member of the Final Exit Network assisted suicide ring that resulted in the deaths of multiple people from illegal assisted suicides has pleaded guilty in one case. Wye Hale-Rowe was one of the people allegedly involved in an assisted suicide case in Arizona.
Last May, a county attorney in Phoenix, Andrew Thomas, announced that investigators from his office busted four people on murder charges in the 2005 "assisted suicide" death of a seriously mentally ill Phoenix woman.
The four defendants -- who include retired Scottsdale resident Frank Langsner, a retired college professor -- were charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Langsner and Wye Hale-Rowe, another so-called "exit guide" from the Final Exit Network also are facing manslaughter charges.
Now, according to a Phoenix New Times report, Hale-Rowe struck a plea deal with county prosecutors and agreed to testify against the three remaining defendants in the case -- Langsner and two senior Final Exit officials from out of state.
The New Times also indicated that Hale-Rowe admitted the woman killed in the assisted suicide suffered from a serious mental illness, not debilitating physical illness.
Wesley J. Smith, a California-based bioethicist, has been close following the case and the Final Exit Network.
He says the Phoenix case "shattered" the "pretense that the minions who participate in the Final Exit Network are mere counselors–rather than mobile assisted suicide clinics."
He also commented on the mental health status of the woman killed.
"I think it is worth pointing out that the logic of these ideologues is impeccable. Once you accept the belief that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, assisting the suicides of the mentally ill–whose suffering is often far worse than those with physical illnesses–can become compelling," Smith observed.
"Indeed, just ask the Swiss and Dutch Supreme Courts, both of which have approved of assisting the suicides of those with mental illnesses, and in Switzerland’s case, made it a constitutional right.," Smith added.
Smith also praised alternative media outlets for bring the story to light and for its subsequent prosecution.
And that's what the culture of death wants, they view death as the solution to EVERYTHING.
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And that is only one of the first steps down a very slippery slope we've seen before... *\8^(
The problem is that if euthanasia is anything like abortion, and there’s no real reason to believe it isn’t, the slippery slope almost instantly becomes a sharp cliff that leads straight to the pit of Hell.
I see the LifeNews.com continues its campaign of deception.
If one’s cause is just, why employ dishonesty so frequently?
The Deceit of the Day is that she did NOT plead guilty to killing anyone.
LifeNews.com throws around “murder” and “manslaughter” and “conspiracy”...but never reveals that she was convicted of none of those. “Facilitation” is the plea deal this 81-year-old woman accepted—not that she “killed” anyone—and she can now perhaps not spend the rest of her life fighting endless court battles. Some choice she had.
And if the suffering woman was killed, then it wasn’t likely suicide.
The slippery slope is when others’ preferences are placed before the patient’s.
If one’s cause is just, why employ dishonesty so frequently?
The Deceit of the Day is that she did NOT plead guilty to killing anyone.
LifeNews.com throws around “murder” and “manslaughter” and “conspiracy”...but never reveals that she was convicted of none of those. “Facilitation” is the plea deal this 81-year-old woman accepted—not that she “killed” anyone—and she can now perhaps not spend the rest of her life fighting endless court battles. Some choice she had.
Her guilty plea was for facilitation to commit manslaughter which IS killing someone.
Elderly Woman Pleads Guilty Plea Today in Phoenix "Assisted-Suicide" Case
Others' preferences? Like the "preferences" of those who understand that it is evil to kill people?
Thanks for the article and the ping.
Assisted suicide is murder, that’s all it is.
Final Exit Network??
Sounds as evil as Planned Parenthood.
Oh, it is! ((((((Shuddering)))))
Bearing true witness is SO old-fashioned, I know, but some of us still believe it's not nice to mislead people.
What LifeNews and you have stated is BS. LifeNews knows it, too, since they mentioned other charges but not even the actual charge that is the subject of the story!
Facilitation is not even in the Homicide chapter of the law (Chapter 11)...it has to do with others' actions or intents in many categories. It is not "admitting the killing of another."
Here's Arizona's definition of facilitation (emphasis added by me):
A. A person commits facilitation if, acting with knowledge that another person is committing or intends to commit an offense, the person knowingly provides the other person with means or opportunity for the commission of the offense.IANAL.
If one person claims to know better than you do, “how to run your life,” then who’s to say the next joker (e.g., a death cultist) can’t make the same claim?
Once you put the wishes of others above the patient’s own wishes, you have opened the door to all sorts of abuse.
The case was particularly troubling to the experts interviewed by Rubin because Van Voorhis suffered from chronic mental illness -- and the volunteers apparently tried to stage the suicide as if Van Voorhis had killed herself without their assistance. It was only thanks to detective work from the Phoenix Police Department that the Final Exit Network's involvement came to light.
Exactly.
It was all about whether or not they provided assistance for the suicide. AFAIK, nobody (except the habitual liars ay LifeNews.com) is claiming she was killed by others.
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