May 20, 2023
The Mother Who Changed: A Story of Dementia
The Mother Who Changed: A Story of Dementia by Katie Engelhart in the New York Times Magazine. In October 2017, Diane Norelius stopped answering the phone. Her two daughters called and called. They called Diane’s boyfriend, Denzil Nelson, too. Whenever Denzil picked up, he would only say, “She doesn’t want to talk to you.” […]
May 19, 2023
Late Night Police Welfare Check Visits Update
Following the arrest and charging of Kenneth Law in early May in Ontario Canada, for allegedly selling sodium nitrite online, countless Exit Members & PPeH Subscribers have received these startling (and frankly harassing) police visits. The police visit under the guise of performing a ‘welfare check’. What they are actually doing is using the late/ […]
May 7, 2023
Vermont makes aid-in-dying care available to nonresidents
Vermont makes aid-in-dying care available to nonresidents reports The Connetcicut Mirror. With the stroke of a pen on Tuesday, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott removed the residency requirement for medical aid-in-dying care, making the state the first to do so legislatively. Now an adult with a terminal illness living out-of-state will have the option of consulting […]
May 5, 2023
Canada man charged with supplying substance linked to UK and US suicides
Canada man charged with supplying substance linked to UK and US suicides writes The Guardian. Police in Canada have laid charges against an Ontario man following allegations he sold a lethal substance to people in dozens of countries, including four people who killed themselves in Britain and one in the United States. Kenneth Law, 57, […]
April 30, 2023
Human rights court sides with Belgium in euthanasia case
Politico Europe by Carlo Martuscelli
Human rights court sides with Belgium in euthanasia case as judges rule in favor of Belgium in three out of four counts. The European Court of Human Rights has found that Belgium didn’t violate the rights of a person suffering from depression who went ahead with a euthanasia procedure. The Belgian state didn’t violate […]
April 20, 2023
Last Cab to Darwin Taxi Recovered on Philip Nitschke’s Bush Block
Last Cab to Darwin Taxi Recovered on Philip Nitschke’s Bush Block Max Bell’s life ended miserably on a Broken Hill hospital bed. It wasn’t the exit the former cab driver had wanted: in fact, it was one he’d driven more than 3,000 kilometres through the centre of Australia, woefully sick behind the wheel, to try […]
April 2, 2023
The Curious Story of Missing Edition of The Listener
The Curious Story of Missing Edition of The Listener – Is the Sarco too much for New Zealand? On 1 April, The Listener in New Zealand published a significant cover story on Exit Director, Professor Sean Davison and the Sarco machine. Journalist Chris Cooke, spent many months working on the piece conducting extensive interviews with […]
March 30, 2023
Exit International Public Meeting held in Darwin
Exit International Public Meeting held in Darwin Exit International hosted a free public meeting in Darwin to discuss the need for a new Voluntary Euthanasia/ Assisted Dying law for the Northern Territory at the Council for the Aged NT (Cota). An Open Letter to the Politicians of the NT Parliament was signed and will be […]
