September 8, 2024
UK Couple sign up to die in double suicide pod in Switzerland
Former RAF engineer, 86, and his nurse wife, 80, sign up to die in each other’s arms as first British couple to use double suicide pod in Switzerland after her dementia diagnosis By Sarah Oliver and Sanchez Manning Published: 22:00 BST, 7 September 2024 | Updated: 06:55 BST, 8 September 2024 A former RAF engineer […]
September 8, 2024
Letter to Public Prosecutor on Milou’s Euthanasia – ‘Disgrace to Profession’
‘Letter to Public Prosecutor on Milou’s Euthanasia is a Disgrace to Profession’ writes Johan Legemaate, emeritus professor of health law at Amsterdam UMC and the University of Amsterdam. The euthanasia of a 17-year-old due to severe mental suffering may cause a heated debate. But the healthcare professionals who wrote to the OM, without knowledge of […]
September 2, 2024
The Room Next Door Finds Joy as It Stares Down Death
For those who have been following his career from the start, the idea of Pedro Almodóvar’s growing older—and increasingly using his films to reflect on illness and death, or at least just the inevitable slowdown that comes for most of us—is a bitter pill writes Stephanie Zacharek None of us relishes thinking about our own […]
September 1, 2024
Tinnitus & Euthanasia – even in the NL this is difficult
‘Corné’s wife chose suicide because euthanasia was not allowed’ by Jan Waalen & Suzan van Loenen Mariska from Veghel was not eligible for euthanasia. Her severe tinnitus was not hopeless enough, according to her GP. She decided she had to do it herself then. On 29 April this year, she died at the age of […]
August 25, 2024
A Scammer’s Playbook Exposed
Background This week Exit received an extraordinary tale of plastic bag/ Nembutal scamming of an elderly Exit member in Germany. The scammer lured ‘Fred’ (not his real name) in, until Fred parted with more and more money. When one’s first language is not English, it can be much more difficult to detect the spelling and […]
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 10, 2024
History of First Sarco Candidate Raises Questions
According to the NZZ (newspaper) the 55-year-old American woman, who was the first to die in the suicide capsule, made serious accusations against the euthanasia organisation in a letter. Now documents show that she made the opposite statement shortly beforehand. Three weeks ago, Exit International and The Last Resort presented the Sarco suicide capsule to […]
