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Avoiding Mistakes at the End
Webinar Recording now Available
The recording of the January 2025 Workshop- Webinar is now available in the online Peaceful Pill eHandbook.
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Topics covered in the January live online event include:
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- Vomiting & aspiration
- Issues with swallowing
- Misuse of the supplementary drugs
- Pre-death discovery
- Antidotes & resuscitation
- Anti-emetics
- Cannabinoids & more
Recordings of Exit’s Workshop Webinars are made available for viewing within the online edition of the Peaceful Pill eHandbook (on average 2 months after the live event).
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Note - age restrictions apply to all new subscriptions.
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Call for New Committee Members
It is now almost 6 months since the first use of Sarco in Switzerland.
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While the world waits to discover the outcome of the Prosector of Schaffhausen’s investigation into this first Sarco use, The Last Resort Swiss Association is moving into a new phase.
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The Last Resort is currently seeking a small number of new committee members.
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To join the Committee of The Last Resort, you must be a Swiss national or a permanent resident of Switzerland.
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If you are either of the above and want to help ensure that the Sarco has a solid future in Switzerland, you are invited to email Ingrid at contact@thelastresort.ch
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Despite the initial controversy, Sarco has attracted broad support in Switzerland.
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The challenge for Exit is not ensure that its use is not limited to one country, as important as Switzerland remains to the right to die movement.
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Strange Bedfellows?
Assisted Suicide, Abortion & Capital Punishment
Last week we touched briefly upon how capital punishment and assisted suicide - at least in terms of methods to bring about death - are sometimes lumped together and that this makes for uncomfortable bedfellows.
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We are talking here how both Nembutal (pentobarbital) and Nitrogen Hypoxia are both now mainstays of assisted suicide and capital punishment.
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- In assisted suicide, the death is, of course, elective.
- In capital punishment the death is forced upon the prisoner.
The difference between the 2 practices is one of magnitude.
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This is why House Bill 72 of the Ohio state legislature seem so ill-considered. This Bill seeks to ban the use of state funds for abortion, assisted suicide and capital punishment.
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The argument of the proponents of House Bill 72, argue that ‘[o]ur state should focus its taxpayer spending on upholding a consistent ethic of life.'
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There is absolutely no consideration for voluntary/non-voluntary axis on which these practices turn.
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This argument is blind to the rights of all Ohioans: but especially to Ohioan women’s right to control what happens to their bodies but also to older and serious ill Ohioans' right to decide on the type of death they want and when.
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To add insult to injury, the Bill contains a non-severability clause which means that the death penalty, assisted suicide and abortion must be taken as one issue, not three. So law makers must disagree to all if this Bill is to crash and burn (as it rightly should).
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Read more about this bizarre legislative move in the 'Buckeye State' on the Exit Website
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New 2025 Print Edition
Exit is pleased to say that the new edition of Going to Switzerland: how to plan your final exit is back on Amazon.com.
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Note - This book has NO age restrictions.
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