We are celebrating 25 Years since the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1 July 2021, because it was 25 years since the Northern Territory of Australia became the first place in the world to implement a voluntary euthanasia law, the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. The law was ...
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Exit Life Member - Zsuzsi Yardley - died in Switzerland on 3 June 2021. Shortly before her death Zsuzsi wrote: Dear Friends, It is more than fifty years ago that I joined a campaigning organisation for the right to make choices at the end of life, called Exit. Organisations change, ...
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It is perhaps ironic that the very week that ABC TV screens Laura's Choice documentary - a film that features the Peaceful Pill Handbook - that Australia Border Force Seize Peaceful Pill Handbook - copies that have been properly ordered from OS by seriously ill, older Australians. This is now ...
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At Exit, we are often asked about assisted dying and organ donation. For example, is it possible to donate one’s organs after a suicide or, in the context of an assisted dying law, after the assisted death/ assisted suicide. In general, the answer has always been no, except in countries ...
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 Very Brief History On 1 July 1995, the Northern Territory of the Australia became the first place in the world to pass an assisted dying law. The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act  (ROTI) was that law. On 1 July 1996, the full implementation of the law occurred. On 22 ...
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International readers may well ask who is Kevin Andrews? In a nutshell, he's the guy whose private member's bill in the Australian Parliament (The Euthanasia Laws Act) led to the overturning of the world's first voluntary euthanasia law - the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (NT) (ROTI) in 1996 ...
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This blog entry has been prompted by the recent wave of law reform occurring in Australia and its neighbour, New Zealand. From a rocky start some 25 years ago when the Northern Territory (one of Australia's 3 territories vis a vis states) passed the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act ...
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This week's news has concerned an anonymous 45 year old British woman (Ms Anon) who went public with her plight to die. According to the media reports, her story went like this. She had gone from working in a senior position in the NHS (National Health Service). But then got ...
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On Saturday 17 October 2020, New Zealand held its most recent federal election. Coupled with the election were 2 referenda. One on euthanasia, the other on cannabis. In counting to date, around 65% of voters voted in favour of legalising assisted suicide/ assisted dying for the terminally ill. The final ...
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History After more than two years in development, Exit is pleased to say the latest version of the Sarco euthanasia capsule - Sarco X - has passed its final round of laboratory testing. What does this mean you ask? It means that Sarco is ready for use! Sarco X is ...
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