Newspaper Media
January 24, 2021
Ultime Liberté Board Members Arrested by French Police
Caroline M.Dermy, Le Journal de la Haute-Marne
Last Tuesday at 6:45 am, Claude Hury was awakened by the gendarmes of Oclaesp (Central Office for the Fight against Attacks on the Environment and Public Health). Indeed, the 71-year-old woman is president of the Ultime Liberté association. This association has been campaigning for the right to assisted suicide since 2009. Claude Hury and Armand […]
January 17, 2021
Selling Coals to Newcastle? The Dutch Discover the Swiss Option
Always on time, he is ready in the morning in the hall of his apartment. Kees Kentie (87 years) is ready in every way. He was counting down the days in the past week. Everyday actions are against him. Shaving: it’s exhausting. He’s looking forward to his last shave tomorrow. Today, July 22, 2020, Kees […]
October 4, 2020
USA Today – Posts satirize Euthanasia Law: Hawaii bought ‘passing assistance pods’
Posts satirize euthanasia law, saying Hawaii bought ‘passing assistance pods’ USA Today, McKenzie Sadeghi The claim: Hawaii bought dozens of ‘passing assistance pods’ following the legalization of assisted suicide Social media posts across Facebook are sharing a satirical view of euthanasia, claiming Hawaii purchased 30 “passing assistance pods.” The claim originated on a satirical Facebook page, The State of Hawaii, which […]
February 3, 2020
‘With this I never have to depend on a doctor’ – New Dutch Report on Completed Life
Halfway through the conversation Henk (83) is suddenly holding a large key in his hands. He carefully walks down the stairs to the gray vault in the basement of his house. There he unpacks a small plastic box with two jars. There are two white pills in each jar. “Look,” he says cheerfully, holding one […]
January 13, 2020
Wall Street Journal – ‘My 100 Love Letters to my Dying Father’
Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Cutter
Two days before Christmas, my father told me he was thinking about shooting himself. It was the winter of 2014, and we were alone in his guesthouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I remember the cold electricity of the moment. I sat down on the coffee table and stared at him, blood ringing in my […]
December 10, 2019
History made as Voluntary Assisted Dying Dying becomes Law in WA
The McGowan Government’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill will now become law after the lower house signed off on the Legislative Council’s amendments. Western Australia has become the third jurisdiction in the federation – and 19th in the world – to legalise euthanasia, with the McGowan government’s voluntary assisted dying law clearing its final parliamentary hurdle […]
August 10, 2019
Euthanasia Police Raid Items Returned to Dr Nitschke
Andrew Hough, The Adelaide Advertiser
A controversial euthanasia advocate has criticised police after his personal belongings were returned yesterday – more than five years after raids on his Adelaide home.Major crime detectives interviewed voluntarily voluntary assisted dying campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke over the death of terminal cancer patient Max Bromson, 67, who died in a Glenelg motel on July 28, […]
July 9, 2019
Death Row drugs on sale at discount to teenagers
Suicidal schoolchildren are being offered a Death Row drug for £220. And website ghouls are preying on their vulnerability with a sickening half-price discount for ‘0 to 19-year-olds’ on killer Nembutal, which is used to execute prisoners in the US. One promotion even features a “lethal dose calculator” based on age – as low as […]
May 8, 2019
Reinventing death: Nitschke’s new exit pod
Tracey Ferrier, Australian Associated Press AAP
As visitors file past Philip Nitschke’s original death machine in London’s Science Museum, his sleek new 3D-printed model is about to go on display in Venice as a piece of art. The Sarco death pod is a far cry from the Australian doctor’s first euthanasia machine, which he admits “was not the finest piece of […]
March 7, 2019
Firefighter chooses Swiss option to leave
Mornington Peninsula News, Stephen Taylor
Firefighter’s farewell: Troy Thornton’s wife Christine and children Laura and Jack walk behind a piper past an honour guard of his CFA colleagues after Friday’s memorial service at the New Peninsula Baptist Church, Mt Martha. TROY Thornton, the former officer-in-charge at Mornington Fire Station who chose to end his life in a Swiss euthanasia clinic […]