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January 12, 2025
80-year-old Suspected of Inciting Suicide with Middel X
80-year-old suspected of inciting suicide with Middel X: ‘Lie down, good trip wished’ report Haro Kraak and Maud Effting in de Volkskrant.
With the case against 80-year-old Hans D, Dutch prosecutors appear to be stepping up the hunt for Middel X even further.
Hans is suspected of inciting the suicide of a 32-year-old woman – …
September 8, 2024
Middel X Persists in the NL: despite the Court Case
He knows he may risk a prison sentence.
Nevertheless, former police officer Dik van Oers is trying, quite openly, to find a construction to distribute the suicide drug X ‘legally’ write Maud Effting and Haro Kraak in De Volkskrant.
In green overalls, 80-year-old Dik van Oers sits behind the smooth white table in his study.…
April 18, 2024
At least 172 deaths from Middel X in the Netherlands since 2015
At least 172 people have died after using suicide drug ‘ Middel X’ since 2015.
Last year, the 113 Suicide Prevention Foundation and GGD Amsterdam investigated how many people in the Netherlands died from using the powder. In their own words, this was the first time this was investigated.
The researchers found that the average …
April 2, 2023
Film Explores Life of Paralympian
The Guardian that a new Film explores life of Paralympian who chose the moment of her death.
Marieke Vervoort died aged 40 on Tuesday 22 October 2019 about 8.15pm. She was at her home in Diest in north-eastern Belgium, her parents and loved ones at her bedside, following a small party with friends.
It all …
November 14, 2022
Organ Donation after Euthanasia in the Netherlands
Organ Donation after Euthanasia in the Netherlands is rarely possible from home. Dutch GP Han Mulder and Anaesthesiologist-intensivist Hans Sonneveld believe that they have come up with a solution for people who want to donate their organs after euthanasia reports the newspaper, Trouw.
For people who die in their own homes after euthanasia, organ …
September 14, 2022
Jean-Luc Godard dies in Switzerland
Jean-Luc Godard dies in Switzerland. Lawyer confirms he chose to end life through assisted dying
The medical report on death of 91-year-old director said he had chosen to end his life
Jean-Luc Godard, the maverick French-Swiss director who revolutionised post-war cinema in Europe, died by assisted dying, his lawyer has confirmed.
The medical report on …
March 22, 2020
The Last Day of Her Life – New York Times
The Last Day of her Life, Robin Marantz Henig
17 May 2015
When Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her mind, she would kill herself.
The question was, when?
Sandy Bem, a Cornell psychology professor one month shy of her 65th birthday, was alone in her bedroom one night in May 2009, watching an HBO documentary …
November 11, 2018
Euthanasia Pioneer Nitschke warns of ‘beg and grovel’ legislation
Thomas Manch, The Dominion Post
A proposed law to allow voluntary death for the terminally ill has been labelled “beg and grovel” legislation by euthanasia pioneer Dr Philip Nitschke.
The first doctor to administer euthanasia, Nitschke is holding public talks and instructional workshops on the subject with his pro-euthanasia group Exit International this week.
On Thursday, about 30 members gathered …
May 28, 2018
Death with Dignity: the story of Bev & Athol Whiston
NRC Handelsblad, Nina van Hattum, Enzo van Steenbergen & Benjamin Kat
Documentary. Beverly (79) and Athol Whiston (80) chose to die together in Peru after they purchased and consumed a euthanatic substance. Although they were relatively healthy, they wanted euthanasia. That was not an option for them in Australia. In this documentary, Beverly and Athol, their son and friends reveal what they had to go through …
May 4, 2018
NYT: Why Scientist David Goodall, 104, Wants to Die
Yonette Joseph, New York Times
David Goodall, 104, who is believed to be Australia’s oldest scientist, wants to die. But he can’t do it in his own country, where assisted suicide is banned.
So on Wednesday, he took what was expected to be his last flight, bound for Europe, to accomplish his goal — and renewed a debate in Australia …
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