November 1, 2016
Professor Susan Stefan explains why dying is not a medical matter
Listen to Exit’s 20th Anniversary Keynote Speaker Professor Susan Stefan – author of Rational Suicide Irrational Laws (Oxford University Press 2016) – explain why doctors should have no role in dying well (euthanasia). Professor Stefan was interviewed on ABC Radio Radio National’s Late Night Live on 30 November 2016. Listen Now
October 28, 2016
False checkpoint targeting VE supporters part of investigation, NZ police confirm
A false police checkpoint set up by police to target euthanasia supporters is part of a police investigation into a suspected assisted suicide in June, police have confirmed. Wellington Acting District Commander Paul Basham also confirmed that further deaths are being investigated as part of Operation Painter. “When we become aware of information that people […]
October 27, 2016
NZ Police admit using checkpoint to target euthanasia meeting attendees
Police have admitted they used a breath-testing checkpoint to target people who had attended an Exit International euthanasia meeting. The move has been criticised as an “unlawful checkpoint to interrogate pensioners” by one lawyer, while another said it was probably a breach of police powers. A complaint has already been laid with the Independent Police Conduct Authority about the officers’ […]
October 25, 2016
The VSED Exit
The VSED Exit: A Way to Speed Up Dying, Without Asking Permission reports the New York Times Del Greenfield had endured repeated bouts of cancer over four decades, yet kept working as a peace activist in Portland, Ore., into her 80s. “She was a powerful force,” said her daughter, Bonnie Reagan. But in 2007, Ms. […]
October 24, 2016
Did police use booze checkpoint to target elderly women at euthanasia meeting?
Wellington police may have used an alcohol checkpoint to gather information about elderly women attending euthanasia meetings. The women had been attending an Exit International meeting on a Sunday afternoon early early this month in the Lower Hutt suburb of Maungaraki. As they left, about 4pm, all were pulled over at the checkpoint and – before being […]
October 24, 2016
Nitschke’s Handbook sold to different buyer
Caroline Overington, The Australian
Could there be two families with the unusual surname Manrique, both in Sydney, both seeking advice on how to die peacefully? It seemed unlikely, and so when Exit International founder Philip Nitschke heard a family of that name had died of deliberate carbon monoxide poisoning, he assumed it was the same ÂManrique who had downloaded […]
September 24, 2016
Should Age be Relevant to the Right to Die?
Fiona Stewart, Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty years ago this week Darwin man Bob Dent became the first person in the world to receive a legal, lethal voluntary injection under the Northern Territory’s Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. The act was a carefully drafted piece of legislation that allowed a terminally ill person, of sound mind, to ask a doctor […]
September 20, 2016
Assisted Suicide & Death that Divides the Davison Family
“I will be informing the police that you murdered our mother.” Sean Davison received the single-line email at 1pm on Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 19 months after the funeral. He hadn’t seen his sister Mary since they had posed for a photograph together in front of the coffin, which they helped paint in the bright […]