This week an Australian woman called Kylie Truswell-Mobbs appeared in court charged with the murder of her husband, David Mobbs. David was suffering from motor neurone disease (MND/ ALS) at the time that Kylie allegedly killed him. Indeed, according to news reports, David was so disabled by the disease that ...
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Earlier this month the Dutch government published its annual report on the state of voluntary euthanasia in this country which showed continuous growth in people seeking medical help to die. Yet like most places where euthanasia/ assisted suicide is legal, relatively little data is collected on the type of deaths ...
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Ramon Sampedro would have been delighted. It has been reported this week that a judge in Barcelona, has authorised the euthanasia of a 24-year-old woman with paraplegia. The woman became a paraplegic in November 2022 after a failed suicide attempt when she suffered serious injuries to her spine. Her request ...
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AI is changing life (and death) as we know it. Last week, we drew attention to a recent article in MIT Tech Review where, using the Nomi platform, a chatbot was able to help advise on ways to kill yourself. It was perhaps inevitable that AI would start down the ...
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In an article published this month in the MIT Tech Review, new heights (no pun intended) have been reached in terms of accessing how to die information. The article involves Minnesota writer/ photographer Al Nowatzki who, with his wife’s permission, embarked on a five month relationship with a Chatbot from ...
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January 2025 PPeH Update In January, Exit published a significant new update to the Peaceful Pill eHandbook Essentials. The topic was the different ‘death experiences’ that different methods provide. Indeed, so detailed was the update that important facts were easy to overlook. Nitrogen The section on Nitrogen, for example, gave ...
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A Bit of Background For the past 13 years, the UK has relied on 'the Starmer guidelines' for their legal determinations on assisted suicide. Back in 2010, when he was the director of Public Prosecutions (long before his recent Prime Minister-ship), Keir Starmer attempted to clarify the law around assisted ...
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In recent weeks, I have watched as the Sarco has neared its completion. This has taken place in a workshop in Rotterdam. I have watched as the electronics guy has trouble-shot (is that a term) his system and made some necessary last minute adjustments. I have watched 'the button' being ...
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She who sups with the devil should have a long spoon ... Part of me wants to shake Zoraya and tell her to wake up to herself. She may be depressed, and she may have any number of psychiatric maladies, but that does not mean that she should throw common ...
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The recent death of Scottish solicitor, Bruce de Wert, draws attention to the chaotic and inhumane state of the law in the UK. In 2014, the now Labour Leader, Keir Starmer, issued CPS guidelines about prosecutions for assisted suicide. At that time Starmer was the Director of Public Prosecutions. Presumably, ...
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