The national death-with-dignity group Final Exit Network faces sentencing today for mercifully supplying a chronically ill woman with the “blueprints” to commit suicide.
The defendant organization was found guilty for assisting in the self murder of Minnesotan patient Doreen Dunn via helium asphyxiation eight years ago.
Dunn, in her late fifties, suffered excruciating pain from an incurable and degenerative medical condition and reached out to #FEN for help in ending her profound suffering.
In 2007, after already enduring a decade of physical agony -- and with explicit how-to instructions from the #FinalExitNetwork -- she successfully took her own life.
FEN was subsequently charged for “unlawfully” facilitating Dunn’s suicide by suffocation and, despite defense attorneys arguing that the potentially-lethal information members provided the ailing woman was “protected speech,” the #RightToDie group was convicted.
Sentencing is expected to include a stiff fine.
