Newspaper Media
June 1, 2015
Dr Death returns to Canberra to host workshop on voluntary euthanasia
Henry Belot, The Canberra Times
Controversial euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke will host an exclusive workshop for elderly and seriously ill Canberrans based on a banned book which teaches suicide methods. Dr Nitschke’s medical license was suspended in July after he admitted to helping 45-year-old Nigel Brayley take his own life, despite knowing he was not terminally ill. The former ACT […]
May 27, 2015
Euthanasia group holds workshop on end-of-life options
Irish Independent, Sam Griffin
Laws allowing for assisted suicide must be passed by the Government to prevent suffering and to remove the threat of imprisonment, Dublin woman Gail O’Rorke has said. Ms O’Rorke was last month acquitted of all charges related to attempting to assist in the death of her dying friend, Bernadette Forde. She was speaking at a […]
May 17, 2015
The Last Day of her Life: Story of Professor Sandy Bem
Robin Marantz Henig, New York Times
When Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her mind, she would kill herself. The question was, when? Sandy Bem, a Cornell psychology professor one month shy of her 65th birthday, was alone in her bedroom one night in May 2009, watching an HBO documentary called “The Alzheimer’s […]
May 17, 2015
The last day of her life, The New York Times
Robin Marantz Henig, The New York Times
When Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her mind, she would kill herself. The question was, when? Sandy Bem, a Cornell psychology professor one month shy of her 65th birthday, was alone in her bedroom one night in May 2009, watching an HBO documentary called “The Alzheimer’s […]
April 29, 2015
‘This trial should never have taken place’ – Tom Curran on assisted suicide case
Mr Curran was one of a large number of people who were present throughout the eight day trial which ended in a not guilty verdict on the charge that MS O’Rorke tried to help MS sufferer Bernadette Forde end her life by traveling to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland. Mr Curran’s partner Marie Fleming, who […]
April 28, 2015
Gail O’Rorke found “not guilty” of assisted suicide
Gail O’Rorke has been acquitted at the Circuit Criminal Court of helping her friend take her own life. Ms O’Rorke was found not guilty of attempting to aid Bernadette Forde (51) in travelling to the Dignitas euthanasia centre in Switzerland between March and April, 2011. There were loud screams from her family in the body […]