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February 15, 2021
New Euthanasia Legal Challenge in South Africa
An atheist advocate and doctor have added their voices to a crucial legal challenge to determine whether or not euthanasia should be legalised in South Africa. The last time the issue was raised in court in South Africa was in 2015 when lawyer Robert Stransham-Ford, who was dying, launched an urgent application in the Pretoria […]
February 1, 2021
Laura’s Choice Documentary Film
Laura’s Choice Documentary Film Synopsis Laura’s Choice follows the fiercely independent nonagenarian Laura Henkel who decides she would like to choose when and how she dies. Laura Henkel died at Pegasos Swiss Association in December 2019. Most importantly, Laura invited along her daughter Cathy Henkel and granddaughter Sam Lara (both filmmakers and co-directors) to lend […]
January 31, 2021
Religious Bigot Kevin Andrews Loses Preselection
The Fall of Kevin Andrews? Kevin Andrews – the guy whose private member’s bill in the Australian Parliament (The Euthanasia Laws Act) led to the overturning of the world’s first voluntary euthanasia law – the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (NT) (ROTI) in 1996 has finally lost Liberal Party preselection in the Melbourne seat […]
January 30, 2021
Portugal to Legalise Voluntary Euthanasia
Portugal’s parliament voted on Friday to legalise euthanasia, setting the country up to become the seventh in the world to allow terminally ill patients to seek assistance from a doctor to end their life. “With this vote, parliament added dignity to our democracy,” Left Bloc lawmaker Jose Manuel Pureza said, calling the approval by 136-78 […]
January 4, 2021
New Doxit Podcast – Looking Back/ Looking Forward
Podcast No 17, 3 January 2021 The year that was thanks to COVID-19 but it was not all bad news. Exit’s Doxit Podcast ‘Looking Back Looking Forward’ reflects on the good and the bad to come out of the pandemic experience. For example, like so many organisations around the world, Exit moved our core […]
January 1, 2021
The Exit Bag’s Role in Australian Law Reform
The Exit Bag The Exit Bag’s Role in Australian Law Reform is a little-known story. The use of plastic bags to bring about a peaceful death is not new. Derek Humphry outlines the practice in his book Final Exit, but the use of a specific ‘customised’ bag for the purpose of ending life was first […]