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August 15, 2021
Maltese Young People more Accepting of Euthanasia
The Malta Independent on Sunday, Shona Berger
Is it surprising that Maltese young people more accepting of euthanasia in Europe’s most Catholic country?
This issue is noted in a recent article in the Malta Independent on Sunday.
Before Malta considers passing legislation on euthanasia, there needs to be an improvement in palliative care, Professor of Family Medicine and Bioethics Pierre Mallia …
August 15, 2021
New Exit Podcast
The Azide Wars have come about with the advent in the Netherlands of Middel X as an end of life method.
As a country where voluntary euthanasia has long been legal, there has been a groundswell of discontentment amongst older people who resent having to ask doctors for help to die.
Addressing this souring mood …
August 15, 2021
Exit Podcast No 23 – The Azide Wars
The Azide Wars have come about with the advent in the Netherlands of Middel X as an end of life method.
As a country where voluntary euthanasia has long been legal, there has been a groundswell of discontentment amongst older people who resent having to ask doctors for help to die.
Addressing this souring mood …
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 …
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