October 28, 2023
Estonian Man Tests Grey Area of the Law
The Southern District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Estonia is taking a criminal case against Paul Tammert, accusing him of providing illegal healthcare. Mr Tammert built and rented to would-be purchasers a device that enables a person to take their own life. “According to the indictment, he rented the device at his discretion on at least […]
October 14, 2023
Plea for Greater Understanding for Pyschiatric Illness in Young
Just before his death, David Mulder made one last emergency appeal: lower the threshold to die for people with unbearable mental suffering. On Wednesday, he died. Khalid & Sophie broadcast the probing conversation with him. “I am in distress,” Mulder said at an otherwise empty talk show table at Khalid & Sophie. On Monday night, […]
October 14, 2023
Psychiatric Suffering & Euthanasia
A week after granting euthanasia to 31-year-old David Mulder, who suffered psychologically for years, Dutch psychiatrist Menno Oosterhoff, is inundated with requests for help. Oosterhoff has recently set up the KEA Foundation to support people suffering from mental suffering in their request for euthanasia. In Villa VdB, he argues for a new perspective on euthanasia […]
October 1, 2023
Widower suicide spurs euthanasia drug worry
The Australian newspaper reports that a ‘Widower suicide spurs euthanasia drug worry’. Voluntary assisted dying advocates insist euthanasia drugs should continue to be dispensed to dying people at home despite an elderly Queensland widower taking the lethal substance meant for his terminally ill wife. In the first suspected abuse of a VAD scheme in Australia, […]
September 25, 2023
Alabama seeks to execute prisoner using nitrogen gas
(Reuters) -The Supreme Court of Alabama is weighing whether to allow the state to become the first to execute a prisoner with a novel method: asphyxiation using nitrogen gas, by Jonathan Allen. Last month, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall asked the court to allow the state to proceed with gassing Kenneth Smith, who was convicted […]
September 25, 2023
September 2023 Essentials PPeH Update
This month Exit has published an update to the Poison’s Chapter in the Peaceful Pill eHandbook Essentials. The Chapter is now modified to take account of important new safety information concerning hydrogen sulphide. Log In PPeH Essentials Subscribe Now Not getting updates? Transfer to the Essentials Edition Now
September 9, 2023
Why I am voting YES – Philip Nitschke
It is not often that I stray into mainstream politics, but the forthcoming Australian Referendum on a Voice to Parliament is one issue that I cannot stay silent about. I am voting YES because Aboriginal people have received a raw deal from us white Australians for over 200 years (to put it mildly). Genocide and […]
September 3, 2023
Breaching the stalemate on VAD: it’s time to move beyond a medicalised approach
‘Breaching the stalemate on assisted dying: it’s time to move beyond a medicalised approach’ by Nancy Preston, professor of supportive and palliative care, Sheila Payne, professor of palliative care & Suzanne Ost, professor of law Despite growing legal and medical support for assisted dying, many healthcare professionals do not want to be directly involved. Could […]
