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October 26, 2015
Ex-NT Chief Minister slams euthanasia advocate restrictions
Bill Hoffman, Sunshine Coast Daily
THE FORMER senior politician who introduced Australia’s first voluntary euthanasia laws has described Medical Board of Australia conditions of registration imposed on Exit International head Dr Phillip Nitschke as like something out of North Korea. Dr Nitschke has accepted 25 conditions on his ability to practice in a mediated settlement that concludes longstanding legal and […]
September 11, 2015
Will California say ‘Yes’ to aid in dying bill?
SACRAMENTO — In a landmark victory for supporters of assisted suicide, the California State Legislature on Friday gave its final approval to a bill that would allow doctors to help terminally ill people end their lives. Four states — Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont — already allow physicians to prescribe life-ending medication to some patients. […]
July 30, 2015
Jay Franklin is pleading for help to end his life peacefully
In 2012, after nearly 100 operations and suffering ongoing chronic pain and depression from 35 years of living with a congenital bowel disease, Jay Franklin decided he would seek to end his life Jay Franklin has a ticket to die. Two years ago, the 37-year-old became one of the few Australians to be accepted at […]
July 24, 2015
Dr Death’s show is what the Fringe is all about
It is more than 50 years since a naked girl raced across the stage of an Edinburgh Fringe show, causing palpitations among the audience and outrage in the city chambers. The redoubtable Moira Knox, city councillor and bastion of moral standards, denounced the performance as an offence to common decency and threatened to close down […]
July 22, 2015
Dr Death’s Edinburgh Fringe show will see audience members ‘gassed’
Paul Gallagher, The Independent
Audience members at the Edinburgh Fringe show hosted by the controversial medic known as Dr Death will be ‘gassed’ as they model how “a peaceful and reliable means of death” is carried out. Right-to-die campaigner Philip Nitschke, 67, will invite people on stage to inhale gas from his updated version of the Deliverance machine that […]
July 6, 2015
Court finds Philip Nitschke’s medical licence suspension unlawful
A decision to suspend euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke’s medical registration over his link to a suicide was unlawful, a court has ruled. In a decision that opens the door to Mr Nitschke renewing his registration to practice medicine in Australia, the Northern Territory Supreme Court on Monday ruled he had been unfairly treated. Philip Nitschke […]
July 6, 2015
Philip Nitschke wins appeal over medical licence suspension
Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke has won the support of the Northern Territory supreme court in his fight against the Medical Board of Australia over the suspension of his medical licence. The NT supreme court upheld Nitschke’s appeal on Monday finding the emergency suspension of his licence by the MBA should not have been upheld […]
June 29, 2015
‘Dr Death’, assists in mid-air crisis on Qantas
Tim Barlass, Sydney Morning Herald
It started with a sick father’s pledge to take his son to Disney World. Paul Clifford was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2013. But there was one thing he was determined to do before time ran out. To take his two-year-old son, Archie, and family to see Mickey Mouse in Florida. Against the advice of […]
June 21, 2015
Philip Nitschke’s Edinburgh Fringe Show to Go Ahead after UK Police Drop Inquiry
London police have dropped an investigation into allegations that voluntary euthanasia advocate, Dr Philip Nitschke, encouraged or assisted suicide while in Britain. The controversial Australian doctor – currently suspended from practising in his home country – was questioned under caution in April after complaints were made while he was preparing for his Edinburgh Fringe festival […]
June 10, 2015
Dr Philip Nitschke comes to rescue on Qantas flight
Michael Koziol, Sydney Morning Herald
Euthanasia campaigner and suspended doctor Philip Nitschke provided medical assistance to a critically ill man on a trans-Pacific flight to Sydney on Tuesday morning. Qantas staff aboard QF12 from Los Angeles approached Dr Nitschke directly when the condition of the 37-year-old man – who was suffering terminal cancer – began to worsen, Dr Nitschke told Fairfax Media. Using […]