September 16, 2025
Exit Statement
Exit is very saddened and disappointed by the recent charges brought against former Exit Gold Coast volunteer Elaine Arch-Rowe.
‘Elaine was well known and loved among Exit’s elderly members. With her late husband Peter, she was always only too willing to speak publicly about older Australians’ right to self-determination at the end of life’ said Exit Founder Dr Philip Nitschke.
Elaine Arch-Rowe stepped down from her volunteer position of running the local Gold Coast chapter of Exit in December 2019 and had only casual involvement ever since.
‘Given the news reports about Elaine today, events which neither myself nor anyone at Exit had any knowledge of, we can only assume that she was motivated by a sense of compassion for the desperate situation that elderly people sometimes find themselves in’ he said.
Elaine with her late husband Peter Arch-Rowe