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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 […]
August 11, 2024
No Boundaries are Crossed in Dutch Euthanasia Practice
Some Dutch psychiatrists are saying that the 2023 euthanasia of a 17-year-old proves that things are wrong with euthanasia in the Netherlands. Miriam de Bontridder dismisses the allegations. Milou Verhoof died by euthanasia at the age of 17 on Monday, 2 October 2023, after six years of hopeless psychological suffering. The media, including the Volkskrant, […]
August 9, 2024
Alabama settles lawsuit with death row inmate
The office of Alabama’s attorney general has settled a federal lawsuit filed by death row inmate Alan Miller over the state’s plan for him to become the second known person in the nation to be executed using nitrogen gas. The terms of the settlement are confidential and the inmate’s lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice, meaning […]
July 28, 2024
Sean Davison Arrested in the UK
On the eve of taking up his new position as head of Pegasos Swiss Association in Switzerland (a fact unknown to Exit), former Exit Swiss program coordinator, Sean Davison, has been arrested at his home in Bournemouth in the UK. Sean has been charged with assisting with the suicide of a UK woman (name withheld) […]
July 28, 2024
Sth African euthanasia activist arrested again in UK
South African euthanasia activist Dr Sean Davison has been arrested for the third time on charges of assisted suicide, this time in the UK. Davison was arrested on 15 July after accompanying a 79-year-old English woman to the Pegasos clinic in Switzerland, where she was assisted in suicide at her request on 29 June. Professor […]
July 28, 2024
First Use of Sarco Aborted
In July 2024, The Last Resort withdrew access to the Sarco for ‘Person X’. Person X had previously been expected to be the first person to use the device. The anticipated Sarco death of Person X (a mid 50s woman from the US) on 17 July has been permanently postponed. This withdrawal followed increasing concerns […]
