January 22, 2017
Most Kiwis support euthanasia for those with painful, incurable diseases
Just 12 per cent of Kiwis are completely opposed to the legalisation of assisted dying, according to a University of Auckland study. In a survey of 15,822 people, 66 per cent supported euthanasia as a legal means of ending the lives of people with painful, incurable diseases. “There is strong public support for euthanasia when people are […]
January 9, 2017
Dutch Doctors Unwilling to give Euthanasia to Dementia Patients
Doctors still do not dare to perform euthanasia on people with severe dementia who have made living wills expressing their wish to die, the Volkskrant said on Friday. A year ago, the justice and health ministries said the guidelines for performing euthanasia on people with severe dementia had been relaxed a little so that patients […]
January 1, 2017
Helium Flow Control Fitting
The Helium Control Fitting is no longer being produced.
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
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
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