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September 30, 2018

Euthanasia Drugs & Vomiting: October 2018 PPeH Update

The October 2018 update to the online Peaceful Pill eHandbook explains the dos and donts as they relate to euthanasia drugs and vomiting.

Vomiting is a vexed issue that causes much concern for many.

Indeed, sometimes people are so concerned that they ‘worry themselves sick’.  However, this is largely needless worry.

Vomiting can be addressed …


September 4, 2018

NuTech Cape Town 2018

NuTech is the premier new technologies in end of life choices group.

Founded some 20 years ago by John Hofsess, Rob Neils, Philip Nitschke & Derek Humphry, NuTech meets regularly to showcase new ‘inventions, thinking, developments’ in practical DIY (do-it-yourself) end of life options.

Last year (2017), NuTech was hosted in Toronto and live-streamed to …


May 28, 2018

David Goodall assisted suicide Switzerland

Associated Press, PHILIPP JENNE

David Goodall received an assisted suicide in Switzerland in May 2018. He was very old but he was not terminally ill.

Associated Press writes:

LIESTAL, Switzerland (AP) — A 104-year-old Australian biologist who drew international attention to his right-to-die case ended his life in Switzerland on Thursday, an advocacy group said.

Exit International, the group …


April 1, 2018

Privacy Policy

Introduction

This Online Privacy Statement describes how we treat user data collected during your visit to the Peaceful Pill Handbook site. The Peaceful Pill Handbook site is www.peacefulpill.com or peacefulpillhandbook.com, and includes all web pages whose domain name contains peacefulpill.com. This is not the online privacy statement for other Exit International websites that don’t contain …


February 17, 2018

Lessons from Assisted Suicide Trial of Suzy Austen – March 2018 Update

On 12 February 2018, a court trial involving Exit’s Wellington Chapter Coordinator Suzy Austen took place in the High Court in the New Zealand.

Suzy was charged with importing Nembutal (x2) into NZ and assisting a fellow Exit Member in her suicide.

Suzy Austen after Verdict

The trial concluded on Friday 23 February with Suzy being found guilty of …


December 24, 2017

Newsweek: Meet the Elon Musk of Assisted Suicide

Newsweek, Nicole Goodkind

Meet the Elon Musk of Assisted Suicide, Whose Machine Lets You Kill Yourself Anywhere

Dr. Philip Nitschke considers himself the Elon Musk of assisted suicide—and his latest death machine, the Sarco, is his Tesla.

Newsweek spoke with the 70-year-old doctor immediately after the state of Victoria in Australia, his home country, voted this week to …


December 21, 2017

Tech Problems

Important Notice to Subscribers

The Peaceful Pill eHandbook is currently experiencing technical issues.

We hope to have the site live again shortly.

Our apologies.

Team Exit

ECT: 8.10am, Thursday 21 December 2017…


December 1, 2017

New suicide pod for humans comes with built-in coffin

International Business Times

Philip Nitschke ‘s 3D-printed ‘death pod’ will let users ‘die peacefully and reliably’.

A 3D-printed “death pod” has been created by Australian scientist and euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke which will let users die “peacefully and reliably” with the press of a button.

First teased last month by Nitschke, who critics have dubbed Dr Death, …


September 10, 2017

September 2017 Update: Lethal Inorganic Salts

In recent months there has been much research and discussion about the use of certain inorganic salt substances to cause a peaceful and humane death in feral pig populations in the Australian outback.

As humans and pigs share a similar physiology, Exit has since been researching, and is now writing, about the usefulness of such …