April 28, 2015
Dr Philip Nitschke on BBC Hardtalk
BBC Hardtalk, with Zeinab Badawi
Watch Dr Philip Nitschke on BBC Hardtalk with Zeinab Badawi as he argues that a good death is the fundamental human right of all rational adults, not only the terminally ill. “If we’re going to acknowledge the right to life, we’ve got to be able to recognise the right to dispose of that gift. And […]
April 27, 2015
Dicing with Dr Death
One week down and two to go. ‘Dicing with Dr Death‘ premieres at the 2015 EdFringe. Show Synopsis There have only ever been nine Dr Deaths, but with most of his namesake’s dead, and the Russian serving 12 life sentences in Siberia, Australia’s own euthanasia doctor Philip Nitschke is now master of ceremonies, teaching the […]
April 23, 2015
Breaking News: Irish assisted suicide trial
A jury at the Circuit Criminal Court has been sent home for the night after earlier beginning deliberations on a verdict in the trial of a Dublin woman charged with attempting to assist the suicide of another woman by making arrangements for her to travel to Zurich. Gail O’Rorke, 43, was last week acquitted on […]
April 16, 2015
Australia’s Dr Death Fears Arrest in Britain
Sydney Morning Herald, Julia Medew
Australia’s “Dr Death”, Philip Nitschke, fears he could be arrested by British police when he attends an interview about his euthanasia advocacy work in the UK on Thursday. Dr Nitschke said London’s Metropolitan Police had requested a cautioned interview with him this week and that his lawyers had warned him of a “small but nevertheless […]
April 1, 2015
Nitschke fight heads to Supreme Court
The medical profession should engage with euthanasia rather than trying to silence people, campaigner Philip Nitschke says. Dr Nitschke will take his battle with the Medical Board of Australia to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, after it upheld the suspension of his medical licence. It was suspended in July, a year after Perth man Nigel […]
March 24, 2015
Member’s Death Prompts Vic Police to Suspect Assisted Suicide
Julia Medew, The Age & Sydney Morning Herald
Dorothy Hookey thought she had everything in place. The 86-year-old had enrolled her husband Graham into cooking classes to make sure he could look after himself when she was gone. She had emptied the house of useless objects for the local op shop to benefit. And she had obtained her “insurance” – a lethal drug […]
March 21, 2015
Dying New Zealand Lawyer, Lecretia Seales, Speaks Out
Evidence of a meticulous intellect at work sits in high stacks of convoluted documents in the Wellington office of Lecretia Seales. Every day, she makes her way from the Karori home she shares with her husband, Matt, to her 19th-floor Featherston St workplace to devote another fraction of her precious remaining time to one of […]
March 13, 2015
Sir Terry Pratchett Dies at 66
Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died aged 66, having had Alzheimer’s disease for eight years. “The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds,” said Larry Finlay of his publishing company, Transworld. Best known for the Discworld series, Sir Terry wrote more than 70 books over his lengthy career. He was first diagnosed […]