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April 4, 2025
Trump Tariffs and YOU
This week the US government led by Donald Trump introduced universal tariffs on trade around the world.
It is not yet clear how this will affect our little website.
So, for the time being, the price of our books remains unchanged for both the print and online editions, and also to the price of subscription …
March 30, 2025
Free 500 Page Appendix with Online PPeH
Since the Peaceful Pill eHandbook Essentials was published in 2022, the former book has been included as an Appendix.
It has come to light that few subscribers have been aware of this fact.
Rather than trash this historical treasure trove of science, the decision was made to maintain it but relegate it to Appendix status.…
March 20, 2025
Is Assisted Dying a Class Issue?
“ASSISTED dying is a class issue,” Liz Carr of Not Dead Yet told activists, journalists and MPs at a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday night writes Ben Chacko in The Morning Star for Peace and Socialism.
“As long as we live in a world where certain groups of people are devalued — and we saw …
March 18, 2025
‘Suicide Kits’ & Young People
The question of what constitutes a suicide kit has become increasingly urgent following the tragic deaths of more than 90 people in the United Kingdom, including a British TikToker.
An inquest revealed that a hearing-impaired TikTok star, who ended her life after receiving a ‘suicide kit’, did not receive the necessary support from mental …
February 16, 2025
Exit Live Event Recordings – Available in PPeH
Exit is pleased to announce that the 2024-2025 online Snippet AND Workshop-Webinar series will be published in the online Peaceful Pill eHandbook.
- October 2024 Webinar – ‘Old age rational suicide’
- December 2024 Snippet – ‘Making your elective death peaceful’
- January 2025 Webinar – ‘Avoiding mistakes at the end’
are now available.
If you are a …
February 16, 2025
New 2025 PRINT Peaceful Pill Handbook
Exit is pleased to announce that the new 2025 edition of the print Peaceful Pill Handbook is now available.
It is 2 years since a new print edition has been available.
This delay in print times is mainly due to attention being focused on the online edition, which can be continually updated.
The new print …
January 27, 2025
Suicide Incitement with Middel X
A court in The Hague in the Netherlands on Friday sentenced an octogenarian man to the maximum community service of 240 hours for urging a woman to end her life. She did so using suicide Middel X (sodium azide).
In addition to the maximum community service, Hans D. was also given a 12-month suspended prison …
December 29, 2024
Never before is there so much public focus on self-determination
Suicide capsule ‘Sarco’, Middel X – ‘Never before has there been so much public focus on self-determination around death as now’
Jos van Wijk never minced words: one’s own dying, the 70-year-old believes, is a private matter. No one else needs to interfere with that.
Van Wijk made his conviction his work; until 2023, he …
December 22, 2024
Ding (thing) of 2024: the Sarco
The capsule is built from glossy panels and Plexiglas. You lie in it, tilted back like the pilot of a glider.
It looks like a bobsled. Or the aerodynamic sidecar of a motorbike.
In the Haarlem workshop where Philip Nitschke (77), an Australian doctor, worked for years on the prototype of the Sarco, there is …
December 18, 2024
Online Snippet Recordings Now in PPeH
Snippets
Recordings of Exit’s new 2024-2025 Snippet series of online seminars are now available in the Peaceful Pill eHandbook.
To date, only one Snippet has been held but many more are planned for 2025.
The topic of the December 2024 Snippet was the different types of deaths which different methods of death bring about.
If …
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