November 13, 2014
Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke says claims ‘vexatious’
Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke says he is being held to higher standards than those expected from other doctors as he fights in a Darwin court to retain his right to practise medicine. The South Australian branch of the medical board used its emergency powers to suspend Dr Nitschke’s right to practice medicine after media reports […]
November 13, 2014
Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke opens appeal against Medical Board over registration
It seemed fitting that euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke should be fighting for his medical licence and his professional reputation in the town where he first shot to world attention. On Monday in Darwin, Mr Nitschke began his appeal in the Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal against the decision by the Medical Board of Australia […]
November 13, 2014
Philip Nitschke hearing is told doctors’ letters may have been procured
Euthanasia advocate’s lawyers question medical board role in ‘procuring doctors to write letters’ of complaint about Nitschke Letters of complaint from doctors about the euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke may have been procured by the South Australian medical board, Nitschke’s lawyers have told a tribunal in Darwin. On Monday, the medical tribunal began hearing Nitschke’s appeal […]
November 13, 2014
Nitschke to fight medical board suspension
Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke will argue rational adults have the right to information to help them end their lives, in an appeal against his medical board suspension. Dr Nitschke is suspended from practising by the Medical Board of Australia over his links to a Perth man who committed suicide in May. An appeal will begin […]
November 13, 2014
Dr Philip Nitschke says depressed people can make informed decisions to end their lives
Euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke will consider abandoning his right to practice medicine, he has told a Darwin tribunal. Dr Nitschke said he was fighting a decision by the South Australian medical board to suspend him primarily to defend his reputation and right to fair process. The Board used emergency powers to suspend Dr Nitschke after […]
November 10, 2014
Right to die: Choosing an end to life
Right to die: Choosing an end to life – More people, terminally ill or not, are deciding how and when they want to die. Should this be a crime? By Julie-Anne Davies for The Age. The desperation of the dying is something Melbourne woman Catherine Ringwood knows intimately. Much of her adult life has […]
November 9, 2014
Philip Nitschke: politicians out of step with public’s attitude to euthanasia
Helen Davidson, The Guardian Australia
Politicians and the medical profession are out of touch with the views of mainstream Australia about right-to-die laws, the euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke said in Darwin on Sunday, ahead of an appeal against the suspension of his medical registration. Nitschke, who is the director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International, had his medical registration suspended […]
November 7, 2014
Johnny Rotten to Consider Dignitas if Dementia sets in
The Independent by Ella Alexander, 5 November 2014
John Lydon says euthanasia would be “highly popular” in his head if he was later blighted with dementia. He would also consider going to assisted dying organisation Dignitas. “If I ever felt senility was coming in, then euthanasia would be highly popular in my head,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to endure that hollow loneliness […]