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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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May 6, 2021
New Exit Deliverance Newsletter – Now Available
Read the March 2021 edition of eDeliverance now.
Back editions are also available on the Exitinternational.net website.…
April 20, 2021
Peaceful Pill Handbook 2021 Print Edition
The Peaceful Pill Handbook 2021 Print Edition is now available from Amazon stores around the world.
This new edition is based on the March 2021 edition of the online Peaceful Pill eHandbook.
There are 28 chapters covering topics such as drugs, poisons, gases, the Swiss services as well as other things that matter including …
April 19, 2021
Doxit No 21 – The Push Back: Towards a New Human Rights-based Focus
In early April, Dutch activist group, CLW launched legal action against the Dutch state arguing that the prohibition on assisted suicide and assisted suicide drugs should be abolished. These should be abolished because they prevent self-determination at the end of life. If self-determination is a fundamental human right, they argued that a nation State that …
April 11, 2021
Dutch Group CLW Push for Demedicalisation of Euthanasia Laws
The action titled ‘Dutch Group CLW Push for Demedicalisation of Euthanasia Laws’ are suing the Dutch state for infringing their right to privacy.
The Coöperatie Laatste Wil (CLW), together with thirty Dutch citizens, is taking the Dutch State to court to create the legal right for voluntary, elective dying at a time of one’s choosing …
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