When Australian Broadcast Corporation invited contributions to their Death and Dying ABC Open project, I submitted the following. But it has not appeared on the website. Is this a case of censorship by our national broadcaster? I guess we'll never know since they are not responding to my emails. Dr. Johannes Klabbers On ...
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Why I don’t want to know about dying to know day A lot of things have a day now. Last week we had Cheesecake Day. That was good. I like cheesecake. In Mexico they have a Day of the Dead. In Australia The Groundswell Project has declared August 8th #DyingToKnowDay ...
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Rogi Wieg, a well known Dutch poet, died by voluntary euthanasia in Amsterdam on Wednesday night. Throughout his life he suffered from serious depression and anxiety. He frequently had long spells in psychiatric institutions where he received electroshock therapy. He attempted suicide three times. His request for euthanasia was granted ...
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The Fairfax media in Australia this week seemed to have worked themselves into a lather about young people taking Nembutal. As was written about in Philip Nitschke's autobiography Damned If I Do back in 2012 when Fairfax last mounted a moral panic campaign on this topic, those who are younger ...
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If anyone was wondering what the Northern Territory Supreme Court really means, here it is.  According to Exit International lawyers, the decision is a scathing account of the behaviour of the Medical Board of South Australia and the NT Medical Tribunal. Both failed miserably to apply the law. The following ...
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Those who are opposed to rational people having the ability to make their own choices about how their life ends are fond of using the phrase 'the slippery slope' and also of quoting erroneous statistics from The Netherlands. Steven Poole in The Guardian wrote a nice article on the origins ...
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In a court case that has caused many to wonder about the state of the Irish nation, Dublin taxi-driver, Gail O'Rorke has recently seen her life played out in Ireland's criminal courts. Her crime? To try to help her good friend and MS sufferer, Bernadette Forde, travel to Dignitas in ...
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So, the MET have received a vexatious complaint from pro-life UK and the Metropolitan Police want to interview Exit Director, Philip Nitschke, under caution? Hell no, don't talk about death and dying. At least not in England. This matter is all about free speech. It is about the Religious Right ...
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Lucretia Seales is a New Zealand lawyer dying of a brain tumour. She was interviewed on ABC TV's Lateline show on Friday 10 April 2015.  The interview has many points of note: Lucretia was asked in detail about the desired manner and timing of her death. Her response was the ...
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While Exit is no supporter of the death penalty, we have watched with interest how death penalty-loving states in the US such as Oaklahoma have searched around for other 'acceptable' means to kill prisoners on death row. In light of dwindling supplies of Nembutal from European manufacturers, this State has ...
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