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Reuters - Raid on seller of suicide kits. Assisted Suicide / Euthanasia

Reuters (28.05.2011) Sharlotte Hydorn believes she is helping people. She says the asphyxiation kits she sells offer terminally ill people a better alternative to suffering ---- that they even offer them some control over the experience. SOUNDBITE: Sharlotte Hydorn saying (English): "As their eyes close and they breathe out that last breath they'll know that there's a friend that they can hang on to. Because it's terrible to be in the hospital and no body around you. And not be able to call somebody or push a button to et somebody to come to die all alone with nobody to reach out to." Hydorn gained national attention after one of her customers, a 29-year old man, killed himself. Since then her San Diego area home, where she sells the kits for 60 dollars a piece by mail order, has been raided by the FBI. Nicholas Klonoski's family say he was depressed but otherwise healthy when he used one of her kits to take his own life in December. Hydorn says she regrets selling Klonoski a kit. SOUNDBITE: Sharlotte Hydorn saying (English): "There's nothing I can do. I cannot resurrect this, I cannot turn time back. I wish I could. But I would hope to correct it in the future. I would appreciate it if people in the community would look forward to me and say 'I will help you' rather than look back and say 'why did you do this awful thing.'" The 91-year-old former science teacher is also reconsidering her policy of not asking questions or demanding proof of an illness when potential customers contact her. She bristles, however, at the suggestion she is doing something immoral. "I have been told by people, you know, what do you think ... have you ever considered that you're going to go to hell if you do this. And I have said to them, and it's been reported, I've seen or heard myself saying it on the news, that if you think I'm going to go to hell, then you can go hell!" She says she was motivated to help the terminally ill after losing her husband to colon cancer. Since Klonoksi's suicide, Oregon lawmakers have moved to outlaw the sale of these so called exit kits. Deborah Gembara, Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/05/...