General Article
April 6, 2022
Family threaten legal action against Swiss assisted suicide clinic
Family threaten legal action against Swiss assisted suicide clinic where American woman died Krista Atkins rejected her family’s concerns just before her death by suicide in June 2020. The family of an American woman who died by assisted suicide in Switzerland has threatened to take legal action against the clinic where she died. Krista Atkins, […]
April 3, 2022
Deaths of Arizona Sisters Spark War Over Assisted Suicide
The Daily Beast, Barbie Latza Nadeau
When the friends and family of Lila Ammouri, 54, and Susan Frazier, 49, found out that the Arizona sisters had died by high-priced assisted suicide in Switzerland in early February, emotions ranged from rage to dismay. How could it be that two healthy, affluent health-care professionals—Ammouri a doctor, Frazier a registered nurse—could go to such […]
April 3, 2022
What Annah & the Sisters have in Common
This week saw more sensational reaction to the death of Exit members, Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier in The Daily Beast online magazine. Correspondent ‘at large’ Barbie Latza Nadeau (in Italy), was in detailed contact with me in recent days, in an attempt to set the record straight. While her article ‘Deaths of Arizona Sisters […]
April 1, 2022
Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide
Associated Press, GENE JOHNSON
Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide and so will no longer require people to be residents of the state to use its law allowing terminally ill people to receive lethal medication, after a lawsuit challenged the requirement as unconstitutional, reports Associated Press. In a settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on […]
April 1, 2022
New Essentials Edition – Soon to be Published
In the coming months, Exit will publish complete re-write of the existing Peaceful Pill eHandbook. This is the first complete overhaul of the book since it was originally published online in 2008. The aim is to condense 554 pages to < 200 pages: succinctly, clearly and with gusto. Existing subscribers will have their subscriptions automatically […]
March 29, 2022
Arizona sisters who died by assisted suicide in Switzerland were ‘tired of life’
The Arizona sisters who died by assisted suicide in Switzerland were ‘tired of life’ reports The Independent. Sisters Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier decided to end their lives at a Swiss assisted dying clinic after becoming “tired of life”, according to an advocate who was advising them. Dr Ammouri, a palliative care doctor aged 54, […]
