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April 16, 2018

A euthanasia expert just unveiled his ‘suicide machine’ at an Amsterdam funeral fair

The Washington Post, Amanda Erickson

It is not the most cheerful offering. But euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke thinks he is about to revolutionize how we die.

At a funeral fair in Amsterdam last week, he showed off his “suicide machine.” The “Sarco,” short for sarcophagus, is designed to “provide people with a death when they wish to die,” Nitschke, an …

June 13, 2017

The Big Sleep: the Rational Suicide of Scientists Pat & Peter Shaw

Sydney Morning Herald by Julia Medew

Scientists Pat and Peter Shaw died in a suicide pact in October.

Here, their daughters reflect on their parents’ plan – and their remarkable lives.

For as long as the blue-eyed Shaw sisters can remember, they knew that their parents planned to one day take their own lives.

It …

April 25, 2015

Gail O’Rorke acquitted on two of three charges against her

Connor Gallagher, The Irish Times

The jury in the trial of a woman accused of helping her friend take her own life has been ordered to find her not guilty on two of the three charges against her due to a lack of evidence.

Following legal argument at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Patrick McCartan ordered the jury to acquit …