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September 17, 2021
How voluntary assisted dying will work in Queensland
How voluntary assisted dying will work in Queensland The ABC reports that Queensland Parliament has voted to legalise voluntary assisted dying (VAD), although it will still be some time before the laws take effect. So who is eligible and what will be involved? Can doctors conscientiously object and what about access in a faith-based aged […]
September 15, 2021
BMA Drops Opposition to physician-assisted dying
BMA Drops Opposition to physician-assisted dying – Press Statement We represent doctors and medical students who, like the wider public, hold a wide range of views on physician-assisted dying. On 14 September 2021 our policy-making body (the representative body) voted in favour of a motion changing the BMA’s policy from opposition to a change in […]
September 11, 2021
Sarco @ Suizid Let’s Talk about it Exhibition
Sarco @ Suizid Let’s Talk about it Exhibition at the Museum for Sepulkralkultur in Kassel, Germany opened on 10 September 2021. The Museum of Sepulchral Culture is a space dealing with the topics of dying, death, mourning and remembrance since 1992. The new exhibition – ‘Suizid let’s talk about it’ – is led by the […]
September 5, 2021
Stop Euthanasia & Make Way for Assisted Suicide
Wim Graafland, Medisch Contact
Stop Euthanasia & make way for Assisted Suicide by Wim Graafland Graafland was a general practitioner for over thirty years and now looks back on his experiences with euthanasia. He concludes that the central position of doctors at the end of life is unnecessary and must make way for assisted suicide, without an active physician […]
August 29, 2021
Exit Submission to Australian Senate Committee
29 August 2021 Dear Colleagues Please accept the below as my submission to your Committee in regard to why the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 should remove Section 50A in its entirety. As I understand it, the purpose of the ‘Ensuring Northern Territory Rights Bill 2021’ is to ‘reduce the level of Commonwealth interference with […]
August 24, 2021
Exit dog Henny dies peacefully at home
The Exit tagline ‘I’d rather die like a dog’ became especially poignant recently with the death of 12-year old Henny Penny, a Jack Russell x who was known and loved by many in the Exit community. Four years ago, Henny was diagnosed with heart valve failure; a common condition in small dogs. The diagnosis gave […]
August 22, 2021
The printable coffin of ‘Doctor Death’
The Printable Coffin of ‘Doctor Death’, the Australian Guru of Euthanasia reports El Mundo in Spain. “It’s not for sale, but anyone can print it out at home and assemble it by following the instructions,” says Nitschke. He presented it in 2019 at the Venice Biennale and several people, he says, have been interested from […]
August 15, 2021
New Exit Podcast – The Azide Wars
The Azide Wars have come about with the advent in the Netherlands of Middel X as an end of life method. As a country where voluntary euthanasia has long been legal, there has been a groundswell of discontentment amongst older people who resent having to ask doctors for help to die. Addressing this souring mood […]
August 1, 2021
New Report by German National Academy of Sciences
In a New Report by German National Academy of Sciences, the authors have dealt with the issues of end of life and assisted suicide from different disciplinary perspectives. The participants also represent different positions, but in the following explanations they jointly work out central aspects which, from their point of view, should be considered when […]
July 20, 2021
Dutch Public Prosecutor Takes Issue with Euthanasia Assessments
Dutch Public Prosecutor Takes Issue with Euthanasia Assessments- Rinus Otte – is the cause of the fact that the public prosecution department and regional euthanasia review committees which monitor compliance are embroiled in a dispute about the rules for carrying out euthanasia in the Netherlands, newspaper Trouw reported on Tuesday, citing confidential correspondence. The dispute, […]
