twitter facebook

Sign up to Exit's eNewsletter

The Exit Internationalist

January 1, 2017

Helium Flow Control Fitting

The Helium Control Fitting is no longer being produced.

Category:

More

January 1, 2017

TEDx Darwin: Philip Nitschke on Why Elderly Deserve Lethal Drugs

If euthanasia – a good death – is a civil right, should not the elderly be provided with the means to end their lives when and if they choose. This is the subject of Dr Philip Nitschke’s controversial & thought-provoking TEDx presentation, from Darwin in August 2016. Philip’s address is now available online. Philip’s TEDx […]

December 4, 2016

Philip Nitschke launches ‘militant’ campaign unrestricted adult access to euthanasia

Helen Davidson, The Guardian

The voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has launched a “militant” campaign to push for unrestricted adult access to a peaceful death. Nitschke announced the launch of Exit Action on Sunday morning, describing the new organisation as a subgroup of Exit International, which campaigns, runs workshops and distributes information on voluntary euthanasia. Exit Action said it […]

November 15, 2016

Euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke says Exit International members targeted by police

Melissa Davey, The Guardian

Euthanasia advocate and former medical doctor Philip Nitschke says members of his right-to-die organisation, Exit International, are being targeted by Australian police. Nitschke said an 83-year-old woman living in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak had been visited twice by police in two weeks. The woman was first visited by by Australian Federal Police, who seized […]

November 8, 2016

Nitschke Op Ed: Personal liberty at heart of right to decide how & when one dies

Philip Nitschke, The Dominion Post

OPINION: The recent antics of the New Zealand police in terms of the fake checkpoints and the subsequent searching of homes of elderly members of Exit International would be laughable were they not so serious. The seemingly slapstick way police have gone about their intelligence-gathering has lowered the benchmark in how policing should be performed […]

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

Category:

More

October 28, 2016

False checkpoint targeting VE supporters part of investigation, NZ police confirm

Isaac Davison, NZ Herald

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

Tom Hunt, Stuff.co.nz

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’ […]