Newspaper Media
February 3, 2020
‘With this I never have to depend on a doctor’ – New Dutch Report on Completed Life
Halfway through the conversation Henk (83) is suddenly holding a large key in his hands. He carefully walks down the stairs to the gray vault in the basement of his house. There he unpacks a small plastic box with two jars. There are two white pills in each jar. “Look,” he says cheerfully, holding one […]
January 13, 2020
Wall Street Journal – ‘My 100 Love Letters to my Dying Father’
Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Cutter
Two days before Christmas, my father told me he was thinking about shooting himself. It was the winter of 2014, and we were alone in his guesthouse in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I remember the cold electricity of the moment. I sat down on the coffee table and stared at him, blood ringing in my […]
December 10, 2019
History made as Voluntary Assisted Dying Dying becomes Law in WA
The McGowan Government’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill will now become law after the lower house signed off on the Legislative Council’s amendments. Western Australia has become the third jurisdiction in the federation – and 19th in the world – to legalise euthanasia, with the McGowan government’s voluntary assisted dying law clearing its final parliamentary hurdle […]
August 10, 2019
Euthanasia Police Raid Items Returned to Dr Nitschke
Andrew Hough, The Adelaide Advertiser
A controversial euthanasia advocate has criticised police after his personal belongings were returned yesterday – more than five years after raids on his Adelaide home.Major crime detectives interviewed voluntarily voluntary assisted dying campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke over the death of terminal cancer patient Max Bromson, 67, who died in a Glenelg motel on July 28, […]
July 9, 2019
Death Row drugs on sale at discount to teenagers
Suicidal schoolchildren are being offered a Death Row drug for £220. And website ghouls are preying on their vulnerability with a sickening half-price discount for ‘0 to 19-year-olds’ on killer Nembutal, which is used to execute prisoners in the US. One promotion even features a “lethal dose calculator” based on age – as low as […]
May 8, 2019
Reinventing death: Nitschke’s new exit pod
Tracey Ferrier, Australian Associated Press AAP
As visitors file past Philip Nitschke’s original death machine in London’s Science Museum, his sleek new 3D-printed model is about to go on display in Venice as a piece of art. The Sarco death pod is a far cry from the Australian doctor’s first euthanasia machine, which he admits “was not the finest piece of […]
March 7, 2019
Firefighter chooses Swiss option to leave
Mornington Peninsula News, Stephen Taylor
Firefighter’s farewell: Troy Thornton’s wife Christine and children Laura and Jack walk behind a piper past an honour guard of his CFA colleagues after Friday’s memorial service at the New Peninsula Baptist Church, Mt Martha. TROY Thornton, the former officer-in-charge at Mornington Fire Station who chose to end his life in a Swiss euthanasia clinic […]
March 3, 2019
‘Last moments were beautiful’: Wife remembers firefighter who died Swiss euthanasia clinic
Sydney Morning Herald, Simone Fox Koob
When Christine Thornton said goodbye to her husband at a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland last week, he turned to her, told her he loved her, and said, “I’m going now”. They had spent four days by each other’s side, having coffee in Basel’s picturesque old town, eating cheese in the Swiss Alps and visiting the […]
February 12, 2019
The Right to Choose Death
Sunday Business Post (IE), Siobhán Brett
Philip Nitschke is now 71 years of age, but he was almost 50 when he came up with a device he called a “deliverance machine”. The Australian doctor set up a bedside computer that was designed – once three unambiguous questions were answered affirmatively – to administer a lethal dose of barbiturates, intravenously, with one […]
January 12, 2019
Convicted euthanasia advocate: ‘I was made a scapegoat’
The NZ Herald, Melissa Nightingale
Euthanasia is a divisive issue, but no matter what side of the debate you sit on, it’s difficult to dislike Suzy Austen. You may remember her name, or her face. Just the other day, a stranger in the supermarket hugged her, recognising Austen as the woman who was found guilty last year of importing the […]