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November 2024 PPeH Update
The only conversation topic this week in the Netherlands has been the issue of the type of death that Sodium Azide affords.
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At the core of the debate has been a shift of policy of the biggest proponents of this Salt (known in Dutch as Middel X), CLW (Last Will Cooperative).
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The policy shift is significant.Whereas in the past Middel X has been considered to offer a ‘humane' method of death, this has now been modified.
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Too many stories have emerged of people experiencing unpleasant symptoms with azide ingestion, including severe vomiting and diarrhea.
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... but, of course, many of these symptoms occur in a 'natural' death ... and, as pointed out by CLW president, Rob van Doorn, 'death isn't always as we see in Hollywood'.
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In the PPeH Essentials, Sodium Azide has undergone a similar re-examination.
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This re-assessement has raised another important issue: one that is to be examined at the forthcoming 3 December 2024 online Snippet workshop and that is:
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- What is a normal death?
- How much discomfort/ distress should be tolerated in the process of dying?
- Has Hollywood’s sanitisation of death led to unrealistic expectations of cleanliness?
Read the November Salts Update now
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The Story of Lisette Nigot
Lisette is a moving tribute to the remarkable person we know as Lisette Nigot, the woman who 'didn’t want to turn 80'.
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French-born, Lisette immigrated to the US immediately after WW2 where she created a career for herself as publicist at the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.
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Mingling with artists (Dali), political leaders (JFK) and movie stars (Marilyn), Lisette was living the dream of a most glamorous life, until she wasn’t.
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In her later years she immigrated again, this time to far-flung Perth in West Australia.
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Here she made headlines in ways wholly unintended: because she took her own life on the eve of turning 80. Lisette had long ago decided that 80 was the time to die.
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The subject of Janine Hosking’s 2004 documentary ‘Mademoiselle & the Doctor’, Lisette is now the subject of Catherine Rey’s new book of the same name.
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Buy now from Amazon (internationally)
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17 November. Sunday. 6am.
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You don’t feel like doing it today. You never procrastinate. It’s not like you. But you feel suddenly tired, overwhelmed, nauseated by the whole thing.
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Today, you’ll write the note you intend to pin on the wall of your bedroom. You’ll keep it short. A brief and clear message.
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You scrawl a few sentences and finally opt for these ones: After eighty years of a good life, I’ve had enough of it. I want to stop it before it gets bad.
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Registrations Open
Exit will be holding a one-hour, online Snippet workshop on Tuesday 3 December 2024.
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Snippets are exclusive for Exit Members & PPeH Subscribers.
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The December 2024 Snippet will examine Exit’s Peacefulness-Reliability Test to compare the differences in the dying process of several of the different strategies contained in the Peaceful Pill eHandbook Essentials.
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13.00 Los Angeles (PST USA), 16.00 – NYC (EST USA), 22.00 – Amsterdam (CET)
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Wednesday 4 December 2024
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08.00 – Sydney (AEDT), 10.00 – Auckland (NZDT)
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Free to Exit Members, €30 PPeH Subscribers
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Video ID verification is required.
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Duration ~ 1 hour inc Q&A
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