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October 2, 2024
Dutch Psychiatrists rebuked
The federation of doctors KNMG has called the behaviour of 14 prominent psychiatrists who urged the public prosecution office to take action in the case of the euthanasia of a 17-year-old girl “indecent and unacceptable”. The KNMG, which also arbitrates in matters of ethics, said the psychiatrists were wrong to send a letter in which […]
October 1, 2024
‘Lisette’ by French-Australian Author Catherine Rey
The Story of the Totally Remarkable Lisette Nigot Lisette is a moving tribute to the remarkable person we know as Lisette Nigot, the woman who ‘didn’t want to turn 80’. French-born, Lisette immigrated to the US immediately after WW2 where she created a career for herself as publicist at the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel. Mingling […]
September 8, 2024
UK Couple sign up to die in double suicide pod in Switzerland
Former RAF engineer, 86, and his nurse wife, 80, sign up to die in each other’s arms as first British couple to use double suicide pod in Switzerland after her dementia diagnosis By Sarah Oliver and Sanchez Manning Published: 22:00 BST, 7 September 2024 | Updated: 06:55 BST, 8 September 2024 A former RAF engineer […]
September 1, 2024
Tinnitus & Euthanasia – even in the NL this is difficult
‘Corné’s wife chose suicide because euthanasia was not allowed’ by Jan Waalen & Suzan van Loenen Mariska from Veghel was not eligible for euthanasia. Her severe tinnitus was not hopeless enough, according to her GP. She decided she had to do it herself then. On 29 April this year, she died at the age of […]
August 25, 2024
A Scammer’s Playbook Exposed
Background This week Exit received an extraordinary tale of plastic bag/ Nembutal scamming of an elderly Exit member in Germany. The scammer lured ‘Fred’ (not his real name) in, until Fred parted with more and more money. When one’s first language is not English, it can be much more difficult to detect the spelling and […]
August 18, 2024
Milou’s Parents Hit Back
By Louis Verhoof en Mireille Verhoof, Opinion, first published in Dutch in Trouw Psychiatrist Wilbert Van Rooij and 13 other psychiatrists/doctors sent a letter to the Public Prosecutor’s Office (OM) at the end of April. Co-signed by psychiatry professors Damiaan Denys and Jim van Os, others remained anonymous. In the letter, they asked for ‘exploratory […]
