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January 11, 2018
Exit FB Live Stream: Sunday 18 Feb, Time TBA
Join Exit’s 4th FB Live Stream with Exit Founder Dr Philip Nitschke on Sunday 18 Feb. Remember, FB LiveStreams are only open to Philip’s FB ‘Friends’. So send him a friend request now. Topic TBA.
January 1, 2018
Grain Media Want You
Dear Exit Members, My name is Josh Veselka and I am a producer working for a production company in the UK called Grain Media. We are producing a 30-minute documentary about the Right-to-Die/Assisted Suicide movement with Philip Nitschke and Exit International as the central character and organization. What I am now looking for are people […]
November 29, 2017
New suicide pod for humans comes with built-in coffin
Philip Nitschke ‘s 3D-printed ‘death pod’ will let users ‘die peacefully and reliably’. A 3D-printed “death pod” has been created by Australian scientist and euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke which will let users die “peacefully and reliably” with the press of a button. First teased last month by Nitschke, who critics have dubbed Dr Death, […]
November 28, 2017
‘Suicide machine’ harnesses 3D printing technology
A high-tech ‘suicide machine’ is being touted by a euthanasia advocacy group. It’s called the Sarco capsule, and it has a single, simple purpose: to help you commit suicide, painlessly and efficiently. “Sarco does not use any restricted drugs, or require any special expertise such as the insertion of an intravenous needle,” says Dr. Philip […]
November 28, 2017
Victoria Passes Right to Die Law … Finally
After marathon debates in both Houses of Parliament, the Victorian Parliament has revived euthanasia in Australia by passing the first right to die law since the Northern Territory’s Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 21 years ago. In 1996, Exit Founder & Director Dr Philip Nitschke administered the world’s first legal, lethal voluntary injection to […]
September 25, 2017
Dead right: Philip Nitschke condemns our ‘prehistoric’ euthanasia laws
The Big Smoke Australia by Ingeborg van Teeseling
With the topic of legalising euthanasia up for debate in parliament this week, I travelled to Holland to speak to the man who started the conversation. You have been putting up with portraits of often long-dead Australian mavericks from me for weeks now, as part of my attempt to entertain and inspire. This time, though, […]
August 19, 2017
Euthanasia Flash Mob on Gold Coast
On Saturday 19 August, the Exit community came together to celebrate Philip Nitschke’s 70th Birthday and Exit International’s 20th Birthday. Watch Now on Vimeo Over 50 people of all ages took place in an impromptu flash mob dance to Bon Jovi’s anthem, ‘It’s my life’. It was great fun and the dance was completed before […]
June 24, 2017
This is What Government Censorship Looks Like
Have you ever wondered what Government Censorship looks like? Have you ever wondered how the Australian Government actively works to prevent seriously ill & elderly Australians from accessing end of life information? MND Sufferer Grant McKenzie of Perth found out this month when his book was confiscated at the border by Australian Customs With increasingly […]
May 12, 2017
Suzy Austen goes to trial in Wellington on 12 February 2018
Exit’s former Wellington Chapter Coordinator Suzy Austen has pleaded not guilty to aiding a suicide and importing a drug that can be used for euthanasia. Suzy goes to trial on 12 February 2018. Suzy Austen, 65, has been charged with aiding (Exit International Life Member) Annemarie Niesje Treadwell to commit suicide between December 2015 and […]
April 17, 2017
Tributes flow for Canadian man who lobbied for assisted-dying rights for mentally ill
A Windsor man who urged the federal government to legalize doctor-assisted dying for people like himself with mental illness has taken his own life. Adam Maier-Clayton’s mother, Margaret Maier, said in a Facebook post she was “devastated” that her “beautiful son” had committed suicide. “My son has been on a campaign for several years now […]