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August 14, 2020
NuTech 2020 Online Conference
The NuTech 2020 conference was held online on Saturday 26 September.
Access to the conference recording (5 hours) is free for all registrants (ticket holders).
Non-ticket holders may purchase access US$75.
Purchase Access to the Recording
Note – All proceedings go to the future funding of NuTech conferences.
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July 26, 2020
Doxit No 10 – Is a Nembutal Death ‘Cruel & Unusual’?
In this week’s Podcast, we discuss the controversial use of Nembutal in capital punishment executions in the US.
In particular, we examine the argument that prisoners have recently presented to US Courts that death by pentobarbital injection causes flash pulmonary edema. Flash pulmonary edema, they say, constitutes cruel & unusual punishment. And cruel & …
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
July 12, 2020
Doxit No9: Do You Need a Doctor?
This week’s Doxit Podcast examines the topic of the medicalisation of death.
Whereas once a death was the domain of religion, and suicide was considered a sin against God, more recently the public discourse on suicide has medicalised the act, treating it as a mental illness. No rational person could ever wish to end their …
June 28, 2020
Doxit No8: Miscarriage – The Story of Graham Morant
In 2018, Graham Morant was found guilty of inciting (and assisting)his wife Jenny to suicide. This is the first case where a charge of incitement to suicide has led to a conviction. Graham received 6 years for assisting Jenny’s suicide and 10 years for inciting. These sentences were to be served concurrently.
but…
At the …
June 14, 2020
Doxit No7: The R2D Debreather, more on the lethal salts, plus CNN story on Cindy Shepler
This week we pick up on two of the issues covered in this month’s June update to the Peaceful Pill eHandbook (Nitrite & the Debreather) and discuss the recent CNN article on ME/ CFS sufferer, Cindy Shepler and her VAD in December last year.
The R2D Debreather is a device that enables a person to …
June 7, 2020
My friend Chose an Assisted Death in Switzerland
Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 16, 2019, Cindy Siegel Shepler drew her last breath in a spartan room in Basel, Switzerland.
The 62-year-old American twisted a knob on her IV pole and soon fell asleep for the last time.
I had stayed with her and her husband David in Knoxville, Tennessee, for their last …
June 3, 2020
June 2020 PPeH Update: How much Chloroquine do they need?
With all the hype coming out of the White House these days, its appropriate to turn our attention back to Chloroquine as an end of life strategy.
Far from curing COVID-19, the more sensible question concerns the amount of the drug that a person wishing to end their own life should consume.
In the Peaceful …
May 31, 2020
Podcast No 6: The Rise & Fall of Chloroquine
Long before President Trump touted that chloroquine would be the ‘game changer’ in the fight against COVID-19, this under-rated and useful end of life drug was making something of a comeback since it was first promoted by the French suicide manual Suicide Mode d’Emploi in 1982.
The ready availability of this anti-malarial has contributed to …
May 25, 2020
Doxit Podcast No 5: Lethal Salts Part II
This Podcast continues the discussion of the Lethal Salts by taking a look at a number of eye witness accounts and teasing out some of the elements of the Exit RPA Test – the Reliability, Peacefulness, Availability Test as it is discussed and used in The Peaceful Pill eHandbook.…
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