September 16, 2016
The death that divided Sean Davison’s family
Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Munro
Assisted suicide & the death that divided Sean Davison’s family reports the Sydney Morning Herald. “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 […]
September 9, 2016
Philip Nitschke returns to Australia
Philip Nitschke, who burned his medical licence rather than stop advising terminally ill patients on suicide, is touring Australia before a major conference on “rational suicide”. Dr Nitschke, who now lives in the Netherlands, will host the two-day conference at Victoria’s State Library in Melbourne later this month. The conference, titled ‘Voluntary Euthanasia to Rational […]
August 29, 2016
Are we asking the wrong question on Dying with Dignity?
Dr Deb Campbell, Rationalist Society of Australia
Television producer and performer Andrew Denton has provided us all with some useful and important information about voluntary euthanasia in his podcast series and book, and has asked some interesting questions. Unfortunately they are not the questions about dying with dignity that actually need to be answered. Andrew is proposing a bureaucratic, literally tortuous process […]
August 28, 2016
Controversial Belgian Psychiatrist at Exit Conference
Controversial Belgian Psychiatrist, Dr Lieve Thienpont, was one of three international keynote speakers at Exit’s 20th anniversary conference at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on 22 September. A graduate of the University of Ghent, since 2011 Dr Thienpont has been a founding member of the Life Ending Information Forum at the Free University […]
August 2, 2016
No charges to be laid after Max Bromson Death
Brad Crouch, Adelaide Advertiser
VOLUNTARY euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke will face no charges over the death of a terminally ill man who took his own life inside a Glenelg motel room two years ago. Max Bromson’s family also will not face charges following the two year investigation by police. The Bromson family now want their property seized by […]
July 19, 2016
Assisted dying could have allowed Exit Member Gaynor Grainger to say goodbye
Paralysed and ill, Roger Grainger took his own life. Terrified that his wife Gaynor might be implicated, he did it without telling her. Now she wants the law changed, so that no one else has to die without saying goodbye After Roger Grainger fell ill with suspected Parkinson’s disease in 2012, he began rapidly losing […]
July 7, 2016
Dr Death reveals human side on ‘blind date’ with artist Mirra Whale
Andrew Taylor, Sydney Morning Herald
Mirra Whale was not sure what to expect when she sat down to sketch the man known as Dr Death. “I had no idea,” she says. “It was like a blind date.” Artist Mirra Whale: “I’m not interested in painting someone because they’re famous. It’s what they stand up for.” Artist Mirra Whale: “I’m not […]
June 30, 2016
Euthanasia Laws Imminent in Australia says Nitschke
Two decades after the Northern Territory enacted world-first laws legalising euthanasia, an ageing Australian population is clamouring for the right to end their lives when they choose, says campaigner Philip Nitschke. On July 1, 1996, the NT passed the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, which allowed a doctor to provide lethal drugs or administer […]