December 1, 2024
The Worst Thought-Out Legal Framework Anywhere in the World?
The terminally ill adults (end of life) bill will allow adults in England and Wales who are terminally ill to be provided with assistance to end their own life. The current law on assisted dying needs to be reformed, but this bill is not the solution. It proposes a morally questionable law that is likely […]
November 27, 2024
Will suicide capsule Sarco come to the Netherlands?
‘People say: when can I get in?’ Coöperatie Laatste Wil, the organisation that previously introduced Middel X, wants to try to bring suicide capsule Sarco into use in the Netherlands via a tolerated construction. From December, interested parties can register, although supplying the Sarco may be punishable. Maud Effting and Haro Kraak – are journalists […]
November 24, 2024
BBC Hardtalk in 2015 to Times Radio in 2024
It is hard to believe it is 9 years since Exit Founder, Dr Philip Nitschke appeared on Hardtalk on the BBC where he argued that a good death should be a universal human right. Fast forward to the present and the UK is debating the antithesis of this argument: that a good death should be […]
November 20, 2024
It seems as if Switzerland has suddenly become afraid of its pioneering role
It seems as if Switzerland has suddenly become afraid of its pioneering role worldwide,’ says Nitschke, the inventor of Sarco. For the first time, Philip Nitschke, the inventor of the suicide pill, talks about the Sarco premiere. He considers the criminal proceedings for intentional killing to be absurd. In the interview, Nitschke talks about his […]
November 20, 2024
Creator of Sarco Capsule Rejects Swiss Allegation
GENEVA (AP) — The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled. Philip Nitschke of advocacy group Exit International said Wednesday he wasn’t on hand for the woman’s death on Sept. 23 involving the […]
November 17, 2024
Send a Message of Support to Florian
STOP PRESS – On 2 December, Florian Willet was released from the Swiss prison where he had been held since 23 September at the behest of the public prosecutor in the Canton of Schaffhausen. On 2 December the prosecutor announced that ‘new evidence’ had emerged, and that Florian was no longer being investigated for murder. […]
November 17, 2024
New Exit Videocast on Sarco – Now Available
Exit Video Podcast – the Sarco On 23 September 2024, the 3D-printed Sarco device was successfully used in Switzerland for the first time. The Sarco performed entirely as designed. Upon the press of the interior button, the user (a seriously ill woman from the US) was able to have a fast, reliable and peaceful death. […]
November 16, 2024
Sarco Director Still in Custody
The Sarco boss is still in custody – now his lawyer is attacking the Schaffhausen authorities The German Florian Willet is being investigated for intentional homicide in connection with the first death in the suicide capsule. Now his defense lawyer is speaking for the first time. Simon Hehli 14.11.2024, 17.24 hrs On September 23, a […]
