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April 23, 2016
Hard Back, Large Font, Coffee Table Edition of Peaceful Pill Handbook – Now Available
In 2016, Exit has published three entirely new versions of The Peaceful Pill Handbook. These print books compliment the ground-breaking online edition The Peaceful Pill eHandbook. Want to impress your friends & have a intriguing talking point on your coffee table at home? Don’t look past the new Coffee Table Edition. Note – the Coffee […]
April 17, 2016
Exit 20th Anniversary ROTI Conference: 22-23 September 2016
On 22 – 23 September at the State Library of Victoria, Exit International held a brilliant 20th anniversary conference. The conference marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Darwin man Bob Dent. On this day in 1996, Bob, suffering from prostate cancer, was the first person in the world to receive a legal, lethal, […]
March 1, 2016
Nitschke Calls for Euthanasia Drug Testing
AAP Australian Associated Press
A planned pill testing scheme for music festival-goers in NSW should be extended to the elderly, euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke says. A team of doctors led by president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Alex Wodak, on Sunday vowed to roll out a pill testing trial at festivals in a bid to save young […]
February 20, 2016
Tom Curran to tour Australia & New Zealand – April 2016
Exit is pleased to announce that Exit Europe Coordinator, Tom Curran, will be speaking at a series of Exit Public Meetings in April 2016. Tom Curran is best known as the face of Right to Die Ireland. In 2013, Tom Curran and his wife Marie Fleming took a case to Ireland’s Supreme Court to determine […]
January 8, 2016
Dutch Relax Euthanasia Rules for People with Serious Dementia
The guidelines for performing euthanasia on people with severe dementia have been relaxed a little so that patients can be helped to die even if they incapable of making their current feelings known, the justice and health ministries said on Thursday. However, they will have to have signed a euthanasia declaration with their family doctor […]
January 5, 2016
Tom Curran Calls on Irish Prime Minister to Change the Law
Irish Mirror by Blanaid Murphy
The widower of right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming has hit out at the Taoiseach’s refusal to legislate for assisted suicide here. The multiple sclerosis sufferer and her partner failed in a landmark court battle in April 2013 to legislate for end-of-life help. Eight months later, on December 20, the 59-year-old died in her husband Tom’s arms […]