February 23, 2025
Social Workers to sit on UK Assisted Dying Panels
by Mithran Samuel Social workers would sit on three-person panels set up to review adults’ requests for assisted dying under a proposed amendment to the bill to legalise the practice. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, sponsor of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, has proposed that the panels – which would also comprise a […]
February 16, 2025
Arkansas introduces bill to allow nitrogen gas executions
February 14, 2025 by Josh Snyder A bill filed in Arkansas on Friday that would allow nitrogen gas to be used in state executions has state Attorney General Tim Griffin’s approval, although the United Nations has warned the method “may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.” House Bill 1489, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, […]
February 14, 2025
New Blog: When your AI Chatbot Girlfriend Talks Suicide
Exit goes to great lengths to ensure that the sensitive information contained in the Peaceful Pill eHandbook is safeguarded from the vulnerable. Indeed, every subscription requires video ID as a standard part of the subscription process. So you can imagine our surprise when we heard that AI Chatbots are now having conversations with their clients […]
February 9, 2025
Republican led Montana Moves to Shelve its Assisted Dying Law
Darrell Ehrlick reports: Currently, physician-assisted aid in dying in Montana occupies a legal grey area. A 2009 Montana Supreme Court ruling said a physician can raise a defense in a homicide case, saying that a patient consented and sought out the drugs, but the high court said it was ultimately up to the Legislature to […]
February 6, 2025
Alabama conducts nation’s 4th execution using nitrogen gas
An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas. Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing […]
February 4, 2025
Three-quarters of Dutch open to euthanasia with their partner
A new study has revealed that three-quarters of Dutch individuals with a partner are open to the idea of duo-euthanasia, provided the right circumstances are in place. The survey, conducted by DataIM and DIT, a journalistic platform of the EO, sheds light on the growing interest in this sensitive and controversial practice, even as concerns […]
February 2, 2025
Assisted dying approval should be kept out of Courts
The UK’s former top Judge has warned that assisted dying decisions should be kept out of the courts, suggesting the removal of the clause that requires terminally ill people to get court approval. The Bill could see terminally ill adults in England and Wales with under six months to live legally allowed to end their […]
January 26, 2025
Obituary – Derek Humphry by Philip Nitschke
Philip writes: I knew Derek Humphry for almost 30 years. He was an inspiring and driving force in the modern right to die movement. I was delighted when he accepted an invitation to attend the Voluntary Euthanasia Research Foundation (forerunner of Exit) Conference in Broken Hill in outback New South Wales in September 1997. This […]
