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December 8, 2024

Register Now – Exit January 25 Workshop-Webinar

The next Workshop-Webinar will be held in January 2025 on the Topic of ‘How to Avoid Mistakes on your Final Day’. This workshop-webinar will address the dos and donts of what to do in the lead-up to one’s lawful, elective, DIV and self-determined death. The session will cover a range of strategies. ONLINE WORKSHOP-WEBINARS – […]

December 2, 2024

Florian is Free at Last!

Today, on the 70th day of his pre-trial detention, the President of The Last Resort Swiss association, Dr Florian Willet, has been released from custody by the Schaffhausen public prosecutor’s office. Speaking on behalf of Exit International, Dr Philip Nitschke has said that he ‘welcomes the release and is pleased the rule of law in […]

December 1, 2024

The Worst Thought-Out Legal Framework Anywhere in the World?

The Conversation

The terminally ill adults (end of life) bill will allow adults in England and Wales who are terminally ill to be provided with assistance to end their own life. The current law on assisted dying needs to be reformed, but this bill is not the solution. It proposes a morally questionable law that is likely […]

November 27, 2024

Will suicide capsule Sarco come to the Netherlands?

De Volkskrant

‘People say: when can I get in?’ Coöperatie Laatste Wil, the organisation that previously introduced Middel X, wants to try to bring suicide capsule Sarco into use in the Netherlands via a tolerated construction. From December, interested parties can register, although supplying the Sarco may be punishable. Maud Effting and Haro Kraak – are journalists […]

November 24, 2024

BBC Hardtalk in 2015 to Times Radio in 2024

It is hard to believe it is 9 years since Exit Founder, Dr Philip Nitschke appeared on Hardtalk on the BBC where he argued that a good death should be a universal human right. Fast forward to the present and the UK is debating the antithesis of this argument: that a good death should be […]

November 20, 2024

It seems as if Switzerland has suddenly become afraid of its pioneering role

NZZ Zurich

It seems as if Switzerland has suddenly become afraid of its pioneering role worldwide,’ says Nitschke, the inventor of Sarco. For the first time, Philip Nitschke, the inventor of the suicide pill, talks about the Sarco premiere. He considers the criminal proceedings for intentional killing to be absurd. In the interview, Nitschke talks about his […]

November 20, 2024

Creator of Sarco Capsule Rejects Swiss Allegation

Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled. Philip Nitschke of advocacy group Exit International said Wednesday he wasn’t on hand for the woman’s death on Sept. 23 involving the […]

November 17, 2024

Send a Message of Support to Florian

Special Message

STOP PRESS – On 2 December, Florian Willet was released from the Swiss prison where he had been held since 23 September at the behest of the public prosecutor in the Canton of Schaffhausen. On 2 December the prosecutor announced that ‘new evidence’ had emerged, and that Florian was no longer being investigated for murder. […]