Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Death With Dignity Act, Derek Humphry, Dignitas, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Philip Nitschke MD, physician-assisted suicide, Switzerland on Jun 25th, 2023
A euthanasia advocate claims the death of a 23-year-old woman with a painful terminal illness shows the benefits of new voluntary assisted dying laws work – but he says more still needs to be done. Brave Lily Thai ‘peacefully passed away’ after a years-long battle with autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy (AAG) – a rare condition where […]
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Posted in Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Good Death, Nitrogen, People in the News, Philip Nitschke MD, Self-Deliverance, Switzerland on Oct 16th, 2022
The MIT Technology Review reported 13 October: In a workshop in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Philip Nitschke—“Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide” to some—is overseeing the last few rounds of testing on his new Sarco machine before shipping it to Switzerland, where he says its first user is waiting. This is the […]
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Sisters Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier decided to end their lives at a Swiss assisted dying clinic after becoming “tired of life”, according to an advocate who was advising them. Dr Ammouri, a palliative care doctor aged 54, and Ms Frazier, 49, had been suffering from medical “frustrations” such as chronic insomnia, vertigo and back […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, death, Death With Dignity Act, degerative illness, Dementia, Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Living Will, Oregon law, Philip Nitschke MD, physician-assisted suicide, Politics/Law, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), Switzerland on Mar 12th, 2021
Book Notice THE INEVITABLE: Dispatches on the Right to Die By Katie Engelhart St. Martin’s Press 3/2021 I’ve read every non-academic book on the right to die in the last 40 years and the scope of this new one comes as a pleasant change: in-depth, international, doctor-probing, and examining certain people who want accelerated death […]
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Posted in Derek Humphry, Final Exit, Final Exit Network, Hemlock, Nembutal, Nitrogen, Philip Nitschke MD, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance on Jul 26th, 2020
Like many others, I’m asked regularly whether certain drug sellers are scams. Particularly Nembutal. Now Dr. Phillip Nitsche has done something about these fraudsters. For many years, Exit International has published a list of online Nembutal scams in The Peaceful Pill eHandbook in order to warn readers (& the general public) not to waste their […]
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New voluntary assisted dying clinic opens in Basel, Switzerland Pegasos Swiss Association (https://pegasos-association.com/) Established in August 2019, Pegasos is a Swiss voluntary assisted dying (VAD) association based in Basel, Switzerland. Pegasos was founded in August 2019 by the same Swiss professionals who helped 104-year old Professor David Goodall to die in Basel in May 2018. […]
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For many years people have been thinking up new ways that a legal, peaceful, swift dying can be achieved. None have tried harder than Dr.Philip Nitschke, an Australian now living in the Netherlands. Nitschke has created a 3D-printed suicide machine that allows users to administer their own death in a matter of minutes. Called Sarco, […]
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BUYERS BEWARE ! People desperate to buy the barbiturates Nembutal and Seconal are being taking advantage of by crooks all over the world. There are at least 40 such web sites which are fraudulent. The tricksters want $500-$800 USD to be wired. The following vital scam information is from the December 2018 issue newsletter of […]
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Posted in Assisted dying, Assisted Suicide, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Hemlock, Mexico, Nembutal, Philip Nitschke MD, right to die, RTD News, Self-Deliverance, Self-directed death on Nov 16th, 2018
DRUG SCAMMERS ARE IMPERSONATING US At any one time there are at least 40 web sites offering to sell the drug Nembutal without the need for a doctor’s prescription. None are known to be reliable. Not only are they fraudulent but sometimes pretend to be part of genuine right-to-die organization like ERGO or EXIT. The […]
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