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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.…
May 21, 2020
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May 17, 2020
Doxit Podcast No 4: Lethal Salts & the Law
In some ways the Lethal Salts have remained under the right-to-die radar. But are they the new Drion pill? Are they the new peaceful pill? What does the law have to say on these relatively freely available lethal substances? And what of a clamp-down to prevent public access?
Some even suggest that the Lethal Salts …
May 10, 2020
Doxit Podcast No 3: Happy Hypoxia in the Age of COVID & Dementia & Advance Directives in the Netherlands
This week we take the lead from the plethora of news reports on ‘happy hypoxia’ vis a vis COVID-19 and a good death.
The term ‘happy hypoxia’ first gained attention in early 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some people whose lungs were severely affected by the virus (so that oxygen could not readily …
May 3, 2020
Doxit Podcast No 2: Advance Directives in the Time of COVID
The COVID pandemic has brought new urgency to end of life planning, as far as Advance Directives go.
The arrival of COVID-19 reinforces the need for everyone to prepare a legally-recognised advance directive document and arrange the appointment of a legal representative (eg. guardian, proxy, agent, etc.).
An advance directive can outline the nature …
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