HELL ON EARTH--SUPPORT ASSISTED SUICIDE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL

SUPPORT HELL ON EARTH Band Leader Says Suicide Show Will Go On

TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 3) - Ignoring threats of criminal charges, a band 
leader promised to proceed with plans for a live suicide during a 
concert that will be broadcast over the Internet on Saturday night.

Judge John Lenderman extended an injunction against the band.   
   
Hell on Earth leader Billy Tourtelot said on the band's Web site 
Friday that the concert and suicide will take place in an undisclosed 
location in St. Petersburg.

The band intends to broadcast the event on its Web page and asks its 
fans to visit the site for the performance at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

Tourtelot's announcement last month that he would host the suicide of 
a terminally ill fan led the city to ban the event with an ordinance 
and prompted a judge to issue an injunction against it.
  
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has said that anyone who 
assists in a suicide could be charged with a felony and face up to 15 
years in prison.

Kevin Hayslett, an attorney for Tourtelot, said the band leader 
wanted to go ahead with the show despite the lawyer's advice that he 
not do so. Hayslett said he did not know the concert's location.

St. Petersburg city officials could not be reached late Friday. A 
police dispatcher said no one would be available to comment until 
Saturday.

The person threatening suicide has said he is dying and wants to 
promote his right-to-die views. Tourtelot said he gave his terminally 
ill friend an oath that the show would go on.

"This is about standing up for what you believe in and I am a strong 
supporter of physician-assisted suicide," said a Web site statement 
attributed to Tourtelot.

Tourtelot, 33, did not respond to messages left for him by The 
Associated Press on Friday. The other members of the band have not 
been heard from throughout the controversy, which has earned the 
group worldwide publicity.

Jason Trindade, the operator of a San Diego-based technology company 
that hosts the band's Web site, said he would continue serving the 
site and carry the concert until he receives complaints from law 
enforcement officials to shut it down.

"They haven't broken any law and I can't just turn them off," he 
said. "Myself, I think it's pretty twisted."

He said the site has been attacked by hackers, causing it to be 
temporarily shut down earlier this week. He says he has received 
threats of possible cyberattacks for Saturday's concert.



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