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 […]
February 2, 2016
Families Smuggling Lethal Drugs into Hospitals so Loved Ones can Die
Three people smuggled lethal drugs into Australian hospitals last year so their loved ones could secretly take their own lives, euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke claims. The head of Exit International said the three patients were elderly and had serious illnesses when they took a lethal drug in their hospital beds, while being cared for at […]
February 1, 2016
Readers Respond in their Thousands to “The Big Sleep” & the Reality of Ageing
When my article about Peter and Pat Shaw, the husband and wife who took their own lives, went up on Fairfax websites at noon last Friday, I didn’t know what to expect. Would our readers click on a story about an elderly couple’s suicide pact? Or was it too much for a sunny afternoon […]
January 16, 2016
The Big Sleep: the Rational Suicide of Melbourne Scientists Pat & Peter Shaw
Sydney Morning Herald by Julia Medew
Scientists Pat and Peter Shaw died in a suicide pact in October. Here, their daughters reflect on their parents’ plan – and their remarkable lives. For as long as the blue-eyed Shaw sisters can remember, they knew that their parents planned to one day take their own lives. It was often a topic of conversation. […]
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 7, 2016
Dicing with Dr Death to have Oz Premiere at Melbourne Comedy Festival 2016
Fresh from his success at the Ed Fringe 2015, Dr Philip Nitschke is bringing his ‘Dicing with Dr Death‘ show to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for one night only. There have only ever been nine Dr Deaths, but with most of them dead and the Russian serving 12 life sentences in Siberia, Australia’s Euthanasia […]
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 […]
January 4, 2016
Peaceful Pill eHandbook Now Available on All Devices
Most Recent Update: 1 January 2016 The best-selling Peaceful Pill eHandbook is now available on: PCs/ Laptops – Mac & PC iPads & iPhones All Androids inc phones & tablets Despite a few teething problems, the Peaceful Pill eHandbook is now available on all the above without the need for 3rd party software. A 24-month […]