June 14, 2025
How often can you perform euthanasia and still remain ethical?
Interview with Bert Keizer – one of the Netherland’s most outspoken & experienced euthanasia doctors. There is considerable consensus about quantity in medicine. If you go to hospital for an operation, you want to know that the doctor who is going to perform it is competent. Nobody wants to be operated on by a doctor […]
June 14, 2025
Euthanasia for People with Advanced Dementia?
The issue of someone who has advanced dementia getting help to die is a challenging question for most people. At the current time, this is exactly what my, or rather my wife Fiona’s, family is going through. Her mother Pam is in the advanced phase of this terrible disease with no cure. She is in […]
June 8, 2025
Was the late Sarco euthanasia assistant Willet wrongfully held in custody in Schaffhausen?
Was the late Sarco euthanasia assistant Willet wrongfully held in custody for too long in Schaffhausen? Euthanasia assistant Florian Willet helped a woman take her own life using a suicide capsule, came under the scrutiny of the Schaffhausen criminal justice system – and then chose to take his own life. Now, documents are raising new […]
June 7, 2025
A New Swiss Option? Introducing Athanasios Association
Finally, Exit is again in the position of being able to recommend a Swiss assisted dying/ suicide organisation for Members. After a hiatus of more than a year, Exit is pleased to be in a position to recommend a new Swiss Option, the AthanasiosAssociation in Basel. After visiting and meeting with the team in May, […]
June 6, 2025
Euthanasia Advocate Dies in Germany
Dr. Florian Willet had been under investigation in Switzerland after being present when an American woman died using a so-called suicide pod. Florian Willet, a euthanasia advocate who was detained by Swiss authorities last year after being present when an American woman ended her life using a chamber-like device, has died. Mr. Willet’s death was […]
June 3, 2025
Director of Sarco dies by assisted suicide after “unconscionable” detention
Director of Sarco suicide capsule dies by assisted suicide after “unconscionable” detention by Maud Effting and Haro Kraak. The director of the Swiss suicide capsule Sarco, Florian Willet (47), has died by assisted suicide. He died in Germany at the beginning of May. Willet had fallen into serious mental health problems after the Swiss authorities […]
June 1, 2025
Remembering Florian Willet – Obituary
Dr Florian Willet died in Germany on 5 May 2025. He was 47. He is dearly missed … About Florian Florian came into our lives in early 2024. At Exit, we had heard of this remarkable man during the three years he spent managing the communications at Dignitas in Germany. He would later say that […]
May 31, 2025
The kill switch for dementia sufferers
Inventor behind the suicide Sarco pod reveals plans for implant that will automatically kill patients when their condition worsens by ELENA SALVONI The inventor of the Sarco suicide pod is building a ‘kill switch’ implant which could allow dementia sufferers to seal the time of their death years in advance. Dr Philip Nitschke, whose controversial […]
