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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 […]

March 10, 2024

Explainer: A ‘breakthrough moment’ for assisted dying in Ireland

MSN.com

Right-to-die campaigners hailed a historic ‘breakthrough’ on Thursday after politicians backed legislating for assisted dying. The cross-party Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying recommended, by a large majority, that Ireland should allow euthanasia and assisted suicide for those with terminal and neurological conditions who have months to live. Advocate Tom Curran, whose wife Marie Fleming took […]

March 2, 2024

Perhaps our free choice of euthanasia for dementia is less free than we like to think

The Standard

We need to talk more to people with dementia Is our free choice to decide now that we want euthanasia when we become demented really that free, asks Jessie Dezutter in her opinion editorial. Dear person with dementia, We often talk about you. We talk about you. Less often we talk to you. That may […]

March 2, 2024

Poison seller tied to suicide forum tracked down by BBC

BBC News

By Angus Crawford and Tony Smith A Ukrainian man selling a poison thought to be linked to at least 130 UK deaths has been identified by the BBC. Leonid Zakutenko advertised his services on a website promoting suicide and he told an undercover reporter he sent five parcels a week to the UK. He has […]

February 29, 2024

Couples Going Together – PPeH March Update

PPeH Update

The news in recent weeks of the ‘duo euthanasia’ of the former Dutch Prime Minister and his wife has generated a vast array of questions from Exit member couples about how they, too, could plan to die together. For people who have been together for many years, it makes a lot of sense to also […]

February 29, 2024

Thank you for the information & help you gave both my parents …

Exit often receives notes of thanks from grateful Exit members and their families. We thought we would share one very moving and touching letter on the website. This note of grace in dying (& thanks) is published with full permission of its author. 2 February 2024 Dear Dr Nitschke, I’m writing to thank you for […]