August 23, 2020
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: a Slippery Slope?
NTGV Dutch Medical Association Journal, Bert Keizer
Doctors have good grounds to fear euthanasia: it is the deliberate end of a human life. Nevertheless, many Dutch doctors have proved willing in recent decades to comply with a request for termination of life. One of the causes of such a request lies in the diagnostic efforts that are sometimes sustained for too long, […]
August 12, 2020
Exit Online Workshops – Registrations Open
In response to COVID-19, Exit International has taken its flagship workshops online, hosting workshops across various global time zones. Workshops are held on a rolling basis. Forthcoming Workshop Dates 2020 Wednesday 14 October @ 11am (ADST – Australian Daylight Saving Time) Need 2 Know * Members/ Subscribers log in & watch from home, & ask […]
July 26, 2020
Stop Nembutal Scams Website
For many years, online Nembutal Scammers have duped and deceived the elderly and those who are seriously ill into parting with their money with the promise of ‘no questions asked’ mail-order Nembutal. 99.9% of these websites are scams. To help put an end to this ‘con’, Exit sponsors the ‘Stop Scams’ website where readers can […]
July 20, 2020
Remember Life Pre COVID?
Remember life pre-COVID when Exit International Founder & Director, Dr Philip Nitschke, was out & about speaking at conferences? It seems a life time ago! Luckily we have a short film of one of Philip’s final 2019 keynote addresses: this one to the Australian Medical Students Association annual conference in Sydney in August of the […]
July 14, 2020
Is Pentobarbital ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment? Executions to Go Ahead
On Monday 13 July, it was reported that a Federal Court of Appeals Judge in Washington DC blocked the four federal executions schedule for July / August 2020 in various US states because ‘pentobarbital-only’ executions were argued to pose “an unconstitutionally significant risk of serious pain.” The US Supreme Court has since stepped in. Listen […]
June 28, 2020
New Doxit Podcast: Miscarriage & the Story of Graham Morant – Now Available
In 2018, Graham Morant was found guilty of inciting (and assisting)his wife Jenny to suicide. This is the first case where a charge of incitement to suicide has led to a conviction. Graham received 6 years for assisting Jenny’s suicide and 10 years for inciting. These sentences were to be served concurrently. but… At the […]
June 28, 2020
What is Voluntary Assisted Dying?
What is Voluntary Assisted Dying? Voluntary Assisted Dying is the newest term to describe the practice of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. The term replaces previous terms of medically assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. The aim of is to get rid of any association with ‘suicide’. Some argue that the golden rule is to bury […]
June 7, 2020
My friend chose an assisted death in Switzerland. Her dying wish was to tell you why
Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 16, 2019, Cindy Siegel Shepler drew her last breath in a spartan room in Basel, Switzerland. The 62-year-old American twisted a knob on her IV pole and soon fell asleep for the last time. I had stayed with her and her husband David in Knoxville, Tennessee, for their last […]