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April 12, 2026
New 2025 Dutch Data Published
It’s official, the statistics for Euthanasia/ Assisted dying in the Netherlands are now available. This is what they say, according to NVVE. In the Netherlands in 2025, euthanasia was performed 10,341 times; 3.8% more than in 2024. The number of euthanasia reports as a proportion of the total number of deaths was 6% in 2025. […]
April 5, 2026
It’s Your Say
It’s time for your say. For over 20 years we have been asking you why you join Exit and why you want to read the Peaceful Pill Handbook. This is what you say. Gillian, 79 years I have always been interested in having a good death after watching many loved ones suffer unnecessarily. I feel […]
March 19, 2026
Alberta Seeks to Turn Back the Clock on MAiD
Proposed new legislation in Alberta Canada would prevent anyone in the Province from accessing medical assistance in dying (MAID) unless they are unlikely to die within the next 12 months reports Janet French @ CBC. ‘Bill 18, the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act’, if passed, would prevent doctors or nurse practitioners from […]
March 8, 2026
Widespread VAD Support Recorded in Scotland
Speaking after he met terminally ill Scots outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday morning, Liam McArthur MSP has today said that parliamentarians should listen to the public and back his Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults bill with new constituency-level polling showing consistent, high levels of support for assisted dying is published. MRP analysis of […]
February 15, 2026
He knows how he wants to die …
With his research, Boudewijn Chabot (84) provided insight into dying on one’s own terms for the first time. A repeat study of that work was published on Friday. Now that his own end is in sight, he knows that he will stop eating and drinking. “It’s a long goodbye.” This article was written by Haro […]
February 8, 2026
BMJ Reports on UK Bill
Many lords are focused on optimising patient choice, safety, and control at the end of life, but as lords ourselves we are concerned that numerous amendments from ideological opponents risk undermining the bill entirely, write Dianne Hayter and colleagues Last summer, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to regulate medically assisted dying in […]
January 25, 2026
AI, Sarco & the Right to Die
The inventor of the controversial Sarco suicide pod says AI software could one day replace psychiatrists in assessing mental capacity for those seeking assisted dying. Philip Nitschke has spent more than three decades arguing that the right to die should belong to people, not doctors. Now, the Australian euthanasia campaigner behind the controversial Sarco pod […]
January 21, 2026
Sarco Pod for Couples
In September 2024, a 64-year-old woman became the first human to experience her last moments in a futuristic killing device known as the Sarco pod. Amid a verdant forest in Switzerland’s Schaffhausen region, she climbed inside the 3D-printed capsule, pressed a button, and took a deep breath before nitrogen flooded the vessel. The woman lost […]
January 18, 2026
Couple Charged for Helping 91-year old Mother to Die
Press Release – District Attorney Secures Indictments for Manslaughter in Assisted Suicide Case & Agreement with Final Exit Network Boulder County, Colo. – On February 18, 2024, officers from the Louisville Police Department responded to a suicide at The Lodge at Balfour. The Lodge at Balfour is an independent living facility for older residents in […]
January 15, 2026
Amazon Bans End of Life Books
In recent weeks, a stack of authors have found their books about end of life issues removed from Amazon’s global platform. The ‘Vanilla’ edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook is one of these books! The crazy thing is that many of these books (the Amazon edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook included) present political/ philosophical […]
