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November 1, 2020
NZ Votes Yes to Voluntary Euthanasia
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 result will not be known …
August 16, 2020
Sarco X Arrives with Oxygen Dropping to < 0.6% in 50 Seconds
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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 the 5th iteration of the …
July 18, 2020
VAD Survey Results
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 Societies (VES), who
April 19, 2020
Corona Virus is Personal
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, taken together with the expected …
March 29, 2020
All About Chloroquine
STOP PRESS – Coming in June 2020 – PPeH Update on Chloroquine Phosphate & Hydroxychloroquine
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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 is far from certain (despite …
March 22, 2020
The Last Day of Her Life – New York Times
The Last Day of her Life, Robin Marantz Henig
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 2009, watching an HBO documentary …
January 13, 2020
Wall St Journal: My 100 Love Letters to My Dying Father
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 him, blood ringing in my …
July 15, 2019
Professor Avril Henry & that Infamous Police Welfare Check
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, Professor Avril Henry had her …
June 19, 2019
Australia gets 2nd Euthanasia Law 24 Years After 1st
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 is expected to help around …
June 15, 2019
Correction to Derek Humphry Assisted Suicide History Chronology
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 days of ‘alternative facts’, …
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