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October 4, 2020
FB Posts satirize saying Hawaii bought ‘passing assistance pods’
Fact check: Posts satirize euthanasia law, saying Hawaii bought ‘passing assistance pods’
McKenzie Sadeghi | USA TODAY
The claim: Hawaii bought dozens of ‘passing assistance pods’ following the legalization of assisted suicide
Social media posts across Facebook are sharing a satirical view of euthanasia, claiming Hawaii purchased 30 “passing assistance pods.”
The claim originated on …
October 4, 2020
October 2020 Update – Salts & the Dark Web
The October 2020 Update – Salts & the Dark Web is now available for reading in the online Peaceful Pill eHandbook.
Update No 1 – featured new information on the potentiation of the Salts & a warning of changes on the Dark Web.
Update No 2 – is on page 332 (Eng. edition) and concerns …
September 13, 2020
Podcast No 13 – NuTech 2020 Conference Program for Sat 26 Sept: a sneek peak!
The NuTech Conference was held on Saturday 26 September with a 100% online program, drawing speakers from the Netherlands, US, France, Australia, Scotland & more.
NuTech is the only global group to explore the possibilities offered by new technologies in regard to a peaceful and reliable death, instead of doctor-administered voluntary assisted dying.
This year’s …
September 6, 2020
Facebook Prevents Man Live-Streaming his Death
Facebook says it will prevent a Frenchman suffering from an incurable disease from broadcasting live his own death.
Alain Cocq, 57, was planning to air his final days after starting to refuse food, drink and medicine on Saturday.
President Emmanuel Macron had previously rejected his request for euthanasia.
Mr. Cocq wants the law in France …
September 1, 2020
Sept 2020 PPeH Update: New US Lethal Mixtures
The September Update contains two brand new Chapters
1. The Physiology of a Good Death
This new Chapter explains the way in which death is brought about by various methods from a physiological point of view & includes discussion of:
- Hypoxic Hypoxia (eg. Sarco)
- Hypemic Hypoxia (eg. Nitrite)
- Ischemic Hypoxia (eg. Chloroquine)
- Histotoxic Hypoxia (eg.
August 16, 2020
Doxit No 11 – Sarco X Euthanasia Capsule Arrives
Sarco X is a 3D-printed euthanasia capsule that provides a peaceful and reliable death.
First exhibited at the Amsterdam Funeral Fair in 2018 and then at Venice Design in 2019 and Cube Design Museum in 2020, the latest iteration of the Sarco – Sarco X – has recently undergone its final lab testing at Haarlem …
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.
Visit the Conference …
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 …
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