October 1, 2024
‘Lisette’ by French-Australian Author Catherine Rey
The Story of the Totally Remarkable Lisette Nigot Lisette is a moving tribute to the remarkable person we know as Lisette Nigot, the woman who ‘didn’t want to turn 80’. French-born, Lisette immigrated to the US immediately after WW2 where she created a career for herself as publicist at the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel. Mingling […]
September 24, 2024
First woman dies in ‘suicide capsule’ in Switzerland
In Switzerland on Monday, a 64-year-old woman died in a specially designed ‘suicide capsule’ containing nitrogen gas. It is the first time ever that this suicide capsule, called the Sarco, was used. The capsule, an airtight cabin the size of a coffin, offers, according to its creators, a ‘quick, peaceful and reliable death’ without the […]
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 […]
