May 25, 2025
What voluntary assisted dying options are available for those with dementia?
By Emily JB Smith John Griffiths suspects his mind is starting to fail. It is a horrifying prospect for the father-of-three, former Monash University engineering lecturer and CSIRO research scientist. The Melbourne man spends much of his time with his wife Rachel, who lives in residential aged care, reading her poems and short stories. “I’ve […]
May 11, 2025
Life or death decisions as politicians weigh up assisted dying vote
Life or death decisions as politicians weigh up assisted dying vote by Glenn Campbell, BBC Scotland political editor Liam McArthur launched his bill in March 2024 There are few decisions Holyrood can take that are bigger than a vote on assisted dying. Whether or not to allow terminally ill adults to seek medical help to […]
May 7, 2025
My Appointment with Dr Death
Philip Nitschke facilitated the world’s first legal assisted suicides in the 1990s. But is he the best advocate for the cause he so believes in? By Emily Lawford One bright September afternoon in a forest in Switzerland, a 64-year-old woman is about to die. She is standing in a clearing, in front of a purple […]
May 3, 2025
What would you do? Mothers & Dementia
Each week, hundreds of newspapers around the world publish reader feedback on a range of questions. Last week the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant asked ‘what would you do’ about your mother and dementia. This is what the readers said … My mother (over 80, highly educated) sometimes communicates in such a way that her children […]
April 30, 2025
The American Conservative
Editorial Note This article gives an excellent overview of assisted suicide in the US, post Trump’s election but prior to him assuming office. While many Nth American members have contacted Exit, worried that state laws may get in Trump’s cross-hairs, maybe the situation is not as concerning as first thought. In this regard Tim Rowan […]
April 27, 2025
Forthcoming Exit Events – Registrations Now Open
Exit has a busy schedule of online & offline events in 2025. For more information, please consult the Exit Website or click the links below. Exit events are exclusively for Exit Members & Subscribers of the online Peaceful Pill eHandbook Age restriction apply. Join Exit Now Subscribe to the PPeH Now Program May Online Workshop-Webinar […]
April 23, 2025
Wife of MND/ ALS Sufferer – Refused Bail
Court told Brisbane woman Kylie Truswell-Mobbs murdered husband just hours after palliative care meeting by Rex Martinich and Katharina Loesche A woman allegedly murdered her terminally ill partner soon after he delayed making a decision on legal assisted dying at a palliative care meeting, a judge has heard. Kylie Ellina Truswell-Mobbs, 50, was arrested at […]
April 12, 2025
UK Probe Launched into Suicide Chat Forums
A pro-suicide forum is under investigation by the UK’s online regulator – its first using new powers under the Online Safety Act. The forum, which Ofcom has not named, is understood to be a site BBC News has been investigating for the last three years, linking it to at least 50 deaths in the UK. […]
