Newspaper Media
February 4, 2018
Last Exit to Lismore: People planning Death over Retirement
Marea Donnelly, The Daily Telegraph
After playing “executioner” in Darwin 20 years ago, euthanasia advocate and Exit International founder Philip Nitschke dreams of the day when pensioners can store a death dose of barbiturates alongside their blood pressure medication. This afternoon up to 300 Baby Boomers will join Nitschke at Lismore Workers Club to learn what Australian laws they have […]
January 20, 2018
Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke to visit Bundaberg
Bundaberg News Mail, Joe Castro
RIGHT TO DIE: Exit International spokesman Dr Phillip Nitschke will travel to Bundaberg next month for a public meeting and members’ workshop. IT WILL be almost six years to the day next month since Dr Philip Nitschke first visited Bundaberg and his message remains the same. The voluntary euthanasia advocate has chosen Bundaberg as one […]
January 16, 2018
Euthanasia workshop in Lismore with ‘Dr Death’
Javier Encalada, The Northern Star, Lismore
EUTHANASIA advocate Dr Philip Nitschke will be offering an Exit workshop in Lismore next month, the first of five events organised in Australia. Dr Philip Nitschke is an Australian author, and the founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International. He said he believed the right to die should be recognised as a fundamental […]
December 20, 2017
Living with the dying law: euthanasia tensions linger
The Australian, Samantha Hutchinson
Cath Ringwood is angry. The 67-year-old former palliative care nurse is racked with pain from her arthritic knees and fed up trialling invasive treatments for her chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. It has been a long 20 years of serious illness for the euthanasia supporter, but the past 18 months have been tougher than most. Late last […]
November 23, 2017
Nitschke says Victorian euthanasia bill ‘unworkable’
Philip Nitschke has described the Victorian government’s voluntary assisted dying bill as the “world’s most unworkable end-of-life law” as he warned the legislation would not satisfy all those seeking assisted suicide. The country’s leading proponent for assisted dying and head of Exit International congratulated the Victorian government for passing the bill through the upper house, […]
November 1, 2017
Euthanasia in a Rollercoaster or ‘Sarco’ – Latest Ideas Presented Livestream
Sander van Walsum, De Volkskrant
An annual gathering for the self-deliverance euthanasia industry The Exit NuTech Conference has been held in Toronto, Canada. Interested participants of the right to die movement gathered here last weekend to be informed about the latest techniques that allow this right to be exercised in a humane manner. An innovative livestream made it possible for […]