Exitorial
August 10, 2025
Exit Signs Partnership with CLW in Netherlands
For many years now, Exit International (based in Australia but operating internationally) and Cooperatie Laatste Wil – known as CLW or ‘Last Will Cooperation’ – in the Netherlands have spearheaded the global, self-help approach to a good death. This month the two organisations have signed a MoU (memorandum of understanding) to work together on promoting […]
October 20, 2024
An Exitorial on the UK’s End of Life Debate
There is only story in town this week and it is about the movements within the UK legislative system for an end of life law. Labour backbench MP, Kim Leadbeater, is the latest flag-bearer. Over the years Exit has reported on this possibility many times. Each time we have been critical: some might say overly […]
July 7, 2024
CLW Activists Escape Jail Time
Two of the six former members of the Coöperatie Laatste Wil (CLW) were this week found guilty of distributing Middel X (sodium azide) amongst their members. According to a Dutch Court in the southern city of Arnhem, these six activists formed a criminal organisation to enable assisted suicide. All those charged were over the age […]
March 15, 2024
Dutch Doctors Association Reject Completed Life Bill
In November 2023, the Dutch political party D66 submitted an amended ‘Completed Life’ (Voltooid Leven) bill to the Dutch Parliament. Responding to criticism, they tightened the eligibility criteria by mandating that people ‘aged 75 and older who feel that their life is complete and therefore want to end it with help at a time of […]
June 5, 2022
Legalising assisted suicide is a slippery slope says Dr Anthony Latham
Legalising assisted suicide is a slippery slope says Dr Anthony Latham in the Scotsman. Not so fast says Exit International! When an opinion piece appears in the right to life press, my tendency is usually to dismiss it. Because it is written for a specific, one-eyed readership, it is to be expected that the arguments […]
May 21, 2022
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese & Voluntary Euthanasia
Anthony Albanese is Australia’s new Prime Minister and Exit congratulates him on his election. The Backstory about Anthony Albanese & the Right to Die On 22 September 1996, Darwin man Bob Dent became the first person in the world to receive a legal, lethal, voluntary injection under the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of […]
