VAD Survey by Dr David Swanton, Ethical Rights, Canberra Australia (Survey developed in conjunction with Dr Wendy Gunthorpe, Straight Talk Consulting) Survey Background Survey conducted: 27 July 2020 -  27 February 2021 Sent to World Federation of Right to Die Societies, Exit International, Dying with Dignity (DWD) and Voluntary Euthanasia ...
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There is no denying, the Corona Virus is personal. Not just because it has disrupted the 'business' of Exit with our workshops and chapter meetings cancelled and those of you who comprise our membership among the people most at risk due to age (and with age other health complaints). But, ...
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STOP PRESS -  Coming in June 2020 - PPeH Update on Chloroquine Phosphate & Hydroxychloroquine Blog As readers may have heard, Hydroxy-chloroquine and Chloroquine Phosphate (both anti-malarial drugs) have both been widely reported as possible treatments for COVID. This stems from their anti-viral properties. Although their efficacy in fighting COVID ...
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17 May 2015 When Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her mind, she would kill herself. The question was, when? Sandy Bem, a Cornell psychology professor one month shy of her 65th birthday, was alone in her bedroom one night in May ...
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Two days before Christmas, my father told me he was thinking about shooting himself. It was the winter of 2014, and we were alone in his guesthouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I remember the cold electricity of the moment. I sat down on the coffee table and stared at ...
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It was never supposed to happen like this. A rational suicide was planned, friends (lots of friends) were told along with extended family. She thought she had her affairs in order. No one, but no one, could have predicted what happened next. At around 9pm on Friday 15 April 2016, ...
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A quarter of a Century after the Northern Territory's ground-breaking ROTI - Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, and the State of Victoria has finally enacted its own voluntary euthanasia law. Touted as the world's most conservative law for the terminally ill, the new Voluntary Assisted Dying Act of Victoria ...
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This week the Godfather of the Assisted Suicide movement, Derek Humphry, made an unfortunate, but significant, omission in his chronology of the history of Assisted Suicide laws up to and including June 2019. Exit is certain that this was nothing more than a sleight of the pencil, but in these ...
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5 June 2019 I guess it was bound to happen. An attractive young Dutch girl would be given euthanasia. Or would she? The furor that has erupted over the death of 17-year old Noa Pothoven was fake news waiting  to happen. Here was a girl who was raped and abused ...
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Philip Nitschke has described the Victorian government’s voluntary assisted dying bill as the “world’s most unworkable end-of-life law” as he warned the legislation would not satisfy all those seeking ­assisted suicide. The country’s leading proponent for assisted dying and head of Exit International congratulated the Victorian government for passing the ...
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