October 4, 2020
‘Willingness on all sides’ sees assisted dying become political reality ahead of Dáil vote
IN RECENT WEEKS, as if out of nowhere, assisted dying has gone from being a peripheral to a topical issue with cross-party political consensus. The idea has come to the fore in the form of the Dying with Dignity Bill, a piece of proposed legislation which was debated in the Dáil this week and which […]
September 23, 2020
Fake News Alert: the State of Hawaii did not purchase 30 Sarcos!
In a Facebook post on 16 August 2020, the State of Hawaii reported the following: “As of January 1st, 2019, the state of Hawaii legalized assisted suicide. With the legalization, doctors can now prescribe death as a medical procedure. To aid Hawaii’s medical providers, we have purchased 30 passing assistance pods. These pods/machines are prescribed […]
September 10, 2020
Irish Campaigners support allowing terminally ill people to end their own lives
Irish Examiner, Daniel McConnell
Leading cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan and Tom Curran, husband of Marie Fleming, will publicly voice their support for a new bill aimed at allowing terminally ill people end their own lives. Ms Phelan, Mr Curran, and Gail O’Rorke — who was acquitted of attempting to help her friend Bernadette Ford travel to a euthanasia clinic […]
September 6, 2020
Alain Cocq: Facebook Prevents Incurably Ill Man from Live Death
Facebook says it will prevent a Frenchman suffering from an incurable disease from broadcasting live his own death. Alain Cocq, 57, was planning to air his final days after starting to refuse food, drink and medicine on Saturday. President Emmanuel Macron had previously rejected his request for euthanasia. Mr. Cocq wants the law in France […]
September 6, 2020
Letter from Ireland – Doxit Podcast
Exit Director, Tom Curran, is a household name in his home country of Ireland. In 2012, Tom’s life partner, Marie Flemming, MS sufferer, took her landmark assisted suicide case to the Irish High Court and then to the Supreme Court on appeal. She lost both cases. Marie died in December 2013. Tom Curran has since […]
September 1, 2020
Mega Topic Update to the Peaceful Pill eHandbook
The September 2020 update to the Peaceful Pill eHandbook contains: New Chapter – Physiology of a Good Death Explained Hypoxic Hypoxia (eg. Sarco) Hypemic Hypoxia (eg. Nitrite) Ischemic Hypoxia (eg. Chloroquine) Histotoxic Hypoxia (eg. Azide) New Chapter – New US Lethal Drug Mixtures (inc D-DMA) Nitrite News Nembutal Scams Update Pegasos Update Sarco X Update […]
August 25, 2020
Meet the woman campaigning for her right to die just for being old
Jacqueline Jencquel has been campaigning for the right to die for the past ten years. She gained popularity as a lobbyist for the cause after a Swiss newspaper came across her blog “La vieillesse est une maladie incurable” (Old age is an incurable disease). Jencquel is 76 years old, she’s not suffering from any serious […]
August 23, 2020
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: a Slippery Slope?
NTGV Dutch Medical Association Journal, Bert Keizer
Doctors have good grounds to fear euthanasia: it is the deliberate end of a human life. Nevertheless, many Dutch doctors have proved willing in recent decades to comply with a request for termination of life. One of the causes of such a request lies in the diagnostic efforts that are sometimes sustained for too long, […]