Magazine Article
May 7, 2025
My Appointment with Dr Death
Philip Nitschke facilitated the world’s first legal assisted suicides in the 1990s. But is he the best advocate for the cause he so believes in? By Emily Lawford One bright September afternoon in a forest in Switzerland, a 64-year-old woman is about to die. She is standing in a clearing, in front of a purple […]
September 5, 2021
Stop Euthanasia & Make Way for Assisted Suicide
Wim Graafland, Medisch Contact
Stop Euthanasia & make way for Assisted Suicide by Wim Graafland Graafland was a general practitioner for over thirty years and now looks back on his experiences with euthanasia. He concludes that the central position of doctors at the end of life is unnecessary and must make way for assisted suicide, without an active physician […]
May 17, 2021
The New Yorker: We’ve Had Great Success Extending Life. What About Ending It?
The New Yorker: We’ve Had Great Success Extending Life. What About Ending It? – Throughout most of the seventeenth century, residents of London could buy, from street hawkers who fought one another for sales territory, a peculiar sort of newspaper. It cost a penny, sold about five or six thousand copies a week, and consisted […]
April 9, 2021
Entrepreneurs, Radicals & the Progressives
While a new bill on the end of life is discussed this Thursday, April 8 at the French National Assembly, Marianne plunges into the galaxy of pro-euthanasia activists. Between morbid innovation and bludgeoning arguments, these fighters are far from creating the conditions for a calm debate on an essential question. Supported by only part of […]
August 23, 2020
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: a Slippery Slope?
NTGV Dutch Medical Association Journal, Bert Keizer
Doctors have good grounds to fear euthanasia: it is the deliberate end of a human life. Nevertheless, many Dutch doctors have proved willing in recent decades to comply with a request for termination of life. One of the causes of such a request lies in the diagnostic efforts that are sometimes sustained for too long, […]
December 24, 2019
A design for death: meeting the bad boy of the euthanasia movement
The Economist 1843 Magazine, Mark Smith
It’s a sunny autumn morning in the Jordaan, Amsterdam’s chocolate-boxiest district. Over tea in a modishly renovated maisonette, a voluble Australian 72 year-0ld wearing round glasses and fashionable denim is regaling me with his new-year plans, which involve “an elegant gas chamber” stationed at a secret location in Switzerland and “a happily dead body”. My host’s […]
January 2, 2019
Tech Ethics Issues We Should All Be Thinking About In 2019
Technology doesn’t police itself. New technologies require us to pay attention, voice our concerns constructively, and demand accountability when people are harmed. For the seventh year in a row, I’ve released a list of ten technologies that people should be aware of in the hopes of giving non-experts a window into what’s going on in labs […]
April 16, 2018
‘Sarco’ Death Pod That Lets Users Kill Themselves Showcased
A 3D-printed euthanasia device that will assist users to kill themselves was displayed for the first time on Saturday (April 14) during a funeral fair in Amsterdam. Dubbed ‘Sarco,’ short for sarcophagus, the model was revealed alongside a virtual reality (VR) demonstration which let attendees experience the pod in action. The device first hit the headlines last year after […]
December 5, 2017
Meet the Elon Musk of Assisted Suicide
Meet the Elon Musk of Assisted Suicide, Whose Machine Lets You Kill Yourself Anywhere Dr. Philip Nitschke considers himself the Elon Musk of assisted suicide—and his latest death machine, the Sarco, is his Tesla. Newsweek spoke with the 70-year-old doctor immediately after the state of Victoria in Australia, his home country, voted this week to legalize […]
July 11, 2017
‘Dr Death’ and his £50 suicide workshops
Philip Nitschke is a former GP who travels the world telling people how to kill themselves It is a sunny Saturday afternoon in Covent Garden and we are all learning how to kill ourselves. The venue is a nondescript community centre in Stukeley Street. It usually hosts activities for children, so there are crayon drawings […]