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August 2, 2021
August 2021 Peaceful Pill eHandbook Update
The August 2021 update to the Peaceful Pill eHandbook publishes original data on over 30 documented deaths from ‘Middel X Powder’.
Middel X is the substance that has become a household name in the Netherlands due to its promotion by activist group, CLW – Cooperation Last Will.
Exit is grateful to both CLW and Dutch …
August 1, 2021
The Azide Wars
The Backstory
The first shots in The Azide Wars were fired in March 2019 when the Dutch Medical Association Journal NTvG published several articles attacking what was described in the editorial as ‘the ideology of suicide”’
In a lead article ‘The Rise and Fall of Agent X’, journalist (and co-author with Boudewijm Chabot of Uitweg)…
July 25, 2021
Suicide Related Materials Offences Act
Exit International has long been the subject of political persecution by multiple governments in Australia. Nowhere is this more obvious than with the Suicide Related Materials Offences Act (Australia) amendment to the Australian Criminal Code.
In short, this infamous 2006 Australian law prevents the use of the phone, email, fax and the Internet to …
July 19, 2021
July 2021 Update – Anti-Coronavirus Helmets
The July 2021 update to the Peaceful Pill eHandbook focuses on the efficacy of Anti-Coronavirus Helmets as useful, lawful alternatives to the plastic exit bag.
While inert gases (eg. Nitrogen, Helium) have long proven to be an effective and reliable means of a peaceful death, the idea of plastic bag has meant that the strategy …
June 20, 2021
Voluntary Assisted Dying in Queensland
While Queensland Parliament argues over voluntary assisted dying in Queensland legislation, euthanasia advocate Cath Henderson is striving for last rights to die for and says a shocking number of Gold Coast residents are already taking matters into their own hands.
Two cancers, 12 years, multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation … it all added up …
June 20, 2021
June 2021 Update – Zsuzsi Yardley’s VAD
In an extraordinary act of generosity, footage of Zsuzsi Yardley’s VAD in Switzerland was bequeathed to Exit by this 81 year old Holocaust survivor (and Exit Life Member).
Zsuzsi died peacefully on 3 June 2021.
This footage is Zsuzsi Yardley’s VAD in Switzerland is her unique legacy to the right to die with dignity movement …
June 13, 2021
Holocaust Survivor Zsuzsi Yardley dies in Switzerland
Exit Life Member – Zsuzsi Yardley – died in Switzerland on 3 June 2021.
Shortly before her death Zsuzsi wrote:
Dear Friends,
It is more than fifty years ago that I joined a campaigning organisation for the right to make choices at the end of life, called Exit.
Organisations change, their names change, my opinions …
May 31, 2021
Exit Podcast No 22 – Retrospective: Philip Nitschke reflects on 25 years of political activism
The May 2021 Exit Podcast (note name change) features an interview with Philip Nitschke as he reflects on the highs / lows of 25+ years of end of life political activism including the effect on his work of his move to the Netherlands, how it feels to be politically persecuted, major turning points in the …
May 9, 2021
Swiss doctor is cleared of murder for a second time
A Swiss doctor is cleared of murder for a second time for helping a mentally ill woman take her life has once more been cleared of intentional homicide.
A Swiss appeals court in canton Basel rejected attempts by prosecutors to overturn a 2019 verdict that had cleared the doctor of murder. The court upheld the …
May 9, 2021
May 2021 Update – Morphine & the Opiods
The topic of the May 2021 Peaceful Pill eHandbook Update is ‘Morphine and the Opioids’.
This Update features a re-written chapter on the Opioids and some new sections on terminal sedation, Double M therapy, the opioid antidote of Naloxone and the problems with slow euthanasia as an end of life process.
Topics include:
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Exit