October 14, 2023
Psychiatric Suffering & Euthanasia
A week after granting euthanasia to 31-year-old David Mulder, who suffered psychologically for years, Dutch psychiatrist Menno Oosterhoff, is inundated with requests for help. Oosterhoff has recently set up the KEA Foundation to support people suffering from mental suffering in their request for euthanasia. In Villa VdB, he argues for a new perspective on euthanasia […]
October 1, 2023
Widower suicide spurs euthanasia drug worry
The Australian newspaper reports that a ‘Widower suicide spurs euthanasia drug worry’. Voluntary assisted dying advocates insist euthanasia drugs should continue to be dispensed to dying people at home despite an elderly Queensland widower taking the lethal substance meant for his terminally ill wife. In the first suspected abuse of a VAD scheme in Australia, […]
September 25, 2023
Alabama seeks to execute prisoner using nitrogen gas
(Reuters) -The Supreme Court of Alabama is weighing whether to allow the state to become the first to execute a prisoner with a novel method: asphyxiation using nitrogen gas, by Jonathan Allen. Last month, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall asked the court to allow the state to proceed with gassing Kenneth Smith, who was convicted […]
September 25, 2023
September 2023 Essentials PPeH Update
This month Exit has published an update to the Poison’s Chapter in the Peaceful Pill eHandbook Essentials. The Chapter is now modified to take account of important new safety information concerning hydrogen sulphide. Log In PPeH Essentials Subscribe Now Not getting updates? Transfer to the Essentials Edition Now
September 9, 2023
Why I am voting YES – Philip Nitschke
It is not often that I stray into mainstream politics, but the forthcoming Australian Referendum on a Voice to Parliament is one issue that I cannot stay silent about. I am voting YES because Aboriginal people have received a raw deal from us white Australians for over 200 years (to put it mildly). Genocide and […]
September 3, 2023
Breaching the stalemate on VAD: it’s time to move beyond a medicalised approach
‘Breaching the stalemate on assisted dying: it’s time to move beyond a medicalised approach’ by Nancy Preston, professor of supportive and palliative care, Sheila Payne, professor of palliative care & Suzanne Ost, professor of law Despite growing legal and medical support for assisted dying, many healthcare professionals do not want to be directly involved. Could […]
July 30, 2023
Dr Death and his search for the best way to die
De Volkskrant, by Maud Effting & Haro Kraak
Dr. Death and his search for the best way to die writes Maud Effting and Haro Kraak in de Volkskrant, NL As founder of Exit International, Philip Nitschke fights for access to information about a soft, self- chosen death. “I think every adult with common sense is entitled to that.” On his idyllic houseboat near […]
July 18, 2023
Dutchman Sentenced to 3 Years over Middel X Supply
Alex S. Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison for supplying Suicide Drug The court in Den Bosch sentenced Alex S. today to 3.5 years in prison, of which 1.5 years is suspended for, among other things, supplying the lethal substance, Middel-X (sodium azide). At least ten of the people that he supplied the substance to […]
