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November 2021 PPeH Update
Now Available
The November Update to the Peaceful Pill eHandbook focuses on the three topics of:
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- Anti-emetics Warning: Doctors Advised to Scrutinise Requests
- Nembutal Availability Changes: Sth America
- Azide Wars Update: Truth is the 1st Casualty
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New Zealand Implements New Law
Exit's Suzy Austen Explains
She’s got four grandchildren with a fifth on the way, a loving husband, and a conviction for importing lethal drugs – Suzy Austen is a little different to your typical grandmother but as a convicted euthanasia advocate Susan Austen ‘thrilled’ by End of Life Choice Bill.
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The 70-year-old Lower Hutt woman has spent the last 15 years as the head of Exit International’s Wellington chapter – an association which has long championed the legalisation of euthanasia.
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It’s a cause for which Austen has fought hard and on Sunday, the End of Life Choice Bill will enter into law.
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Read the interview with Suzy
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Watch the interview with Suzy
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November 2021 Blog
The Azide Wars & Why they Matter
Last week, my former colleague, Dutch psychiatrist Boudwijn Chabot, published an opinion column in the NRC newspaper full of 'alternative facts'.
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NRC has since published a correction.
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Disagreeing with the use of Middel X (sodium azide) as a means for a peaceful death is one thing. But publicly confusing a video documenting a death from sodium nitrite with a death from sodium azide (and exaggerating the time to death) is both dishonest and unnecessary.
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Portugal Joins the Club
Parliament Finally Agrees on a Law
Portugal’s parliament has approved a revised bill legalising euthanasia for terminally ill and seriously injured people.
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The legislation still requires the signature of Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to become law, and he is known to have deep reservations.
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If he signs the second version of the bill, Portugal would become one of the few countries in the world that permit the procedures.
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Parliament passed the first version of the bill in January, but it was rejected by the country's Constitutional Court after a review request by President Rebelo de Sousa.
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