Four members of the Final Exit Network, a volunteer organization which helps terminally-ill members "hasten their death," were arrested in Georgia and Maryland Wednesday on charges of helping a 58-year-old man commit suicide. Now authorities have search warrants to investigate members of the Final Exit Network in seven other states -- including Missouri.The St. Louis chapter of Final Exit held its first organizational meeting earlier this month, and one of the national board members, Dalton Bake
flickr.com/photos/alexfilesThe news came from England yesterday that orchestra conductor Sir Edward Downes, 85, and his wife Joan, 74, committed suicide together last week in Switzerland with the aid of a right-to-die organization called Dignitas.Lady Downes was terminally ill and in the last stages of cancer. Sir Edward, who had been the principal conductor for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, was, according to a statement issued by his son Caractacus and daughter Boudicca, "almost blind and inc
