April 14, 2024
A Public Debate about Tired of Life in Belgium?
In Belgium this week, the Chairman of the health fund, Christian Mutual, Luc Van Gorp, has said that those who feel that their life is complete, should be able to end it. In an interview with the Belgian newspaper, Nieuwsblad, Luc Van Gorp said that he wants people at the end of their lives to […]
April 8, 2024
The Meaning of Life in an Eclipse by Philip Nitschke
In 2002 during the filming of Janine Hosking’s documentary, Mademoiselle and the Doctor, Exit founder Philip Nitschke got to experience a total eclipse in the Australian outback. Hosking used the occasion to ask Philip about his religious beliefs and what the eclipse meant to him.
April 7, 2024
Cooperation Last Will Members’ Trial Begins 8 April
From the CLW Website: From 8 April, the fight for the right to a humane, self-determined end of life moves to the courtroom. This is a great opportunity to wake up politics, legislation and the rule of law that self-determination should not be a criminal offence. We should make it a right, not a court […]
March 25, 2024
Psychiatrists Must Face the Raw Reality
Psychological suffering Euthanasia for psychiatric patients ís a thorny issue. But you cannot solve it by not paying attention, argues Dutch Psychiatrist Menno Oosterhoff. My colleague, psychiatrist Joeri Tijdink, recently questioned in NRC whether all the focus on euthanasia, due to mental illness, is healthy (19/3). Healthy for whom, I immediately thought. For people with […]
March 17, 2024
Leading Scots Solicitor ends life in CH after long illness
One of Scotland’s leading solicitors has ended his own life in a Swiss clinic after a long illness. Exit Member, Bruce De Wert, who was suffering from a severe form of Multiple Sclerosis travelled from Scotland to Basel in Switzerland last month. The 69-year-old undertook the journey on his own having informed his family, including […]
March 15, 2024
Dutch Doctors Association Reject Completed Life Bill
In November 2023, the Dutch political party D66 submitted an amended ‘Completed Life’ (Voltooid Leven) bill to the Dutch Parliament. Responding to criticism, they tightened the eligibility criteria by mandating that people ‘aged 75 and older who feel that their life is complete and therefore want to end it with help at a time of […]
March 10, 2024
Explainer: A ‘breakthrough moment’ for assisted dying in Ireland
Right-to-die campaigners hailed a historic ‘breakthrough’ on Thursday after politicians backed legislating for assisted dying. The cross-party Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying recommended, by a large majority, that Ireland should allow euthanasia and assisted suicide for those with terminal and neurological conditions who have months to live. Advocate Tom Curran, whose wife Marie Fleming took […]
March 2, 2024
Perhaps our free choice of euthanasia for dementia is less free than we like to think
We need to talk more to people with dementia Is our free choice to decide now that we want euthanasia when we become demented really that free, asks Jessie Dezutter in her opinion editorial. Dear person with dementia, We often talk about you. We talk about you. Less often we talk to you. That may […]
