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January 18, 2026
Amazon Bans End of Life Books
In recent weeks, a stack of authors have found their books about end of life issues removed from Amazon’s global platform.
The ‘Vanilla’ edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook is one of these books!
The crazy thing is that many of these books (the Amazon edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook included) present political/ philosophical …
December 21, 2025
Year 2025 in Review
Exit is unique among all non-profits who work in the area of end of life rights.
This is because only Exit focuses upon DIY dying as a technical possibility and a practical reality.
Headed by Philip Nitschke who not only trained as a medical doctor but also has a background in experimental and applied physics, …
October 5, 2025
What sort of right is it if I can’t make it real?
The events of recent months show one thing.
It is categorically, absolutely not enough for the State to only be concerned with allowing end of life options for the terminally ill.
A good death is everybody’s right.
For heavens sake, this is 2025. Why is this fact so hard for governments around the world to …
June 14, 2025
Euthanasia for People with Advanced Dementia?
The issue of someone who has advanced dementia getting help to die is a challenging question for most people.
At the current time, this is exactly what my, or rather my wife Fiona’s, family is going through.
Her mother Pam is in the advanced phase of this terrible disease with no cure.
She is in …
April 27, 2025
How Not to Help Your Loved One to Die
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 he was using a …
April 12, 2025
The Latest Data from Oregon
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 that people get.
In Switzerland …
March 23, 2025
Spanish Precedent as 24-Year Old with Paraplegia Allowed to Die
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 for an assisted death was …
February 23, 2025
PPeH vs AI – who provides the best answers?
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 controversial path of suicide assistance …
February 16, 2025
When your Chatbot Girlfriend Instructs You on Suicide
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 the Nomi platform.
Nomi …
January 19, 2025
Different Methods, Different Deaths: Hypoxia Explained
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 details and descriptions about …
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