June 16, 2024
June Peaceful Pill eHandbook Update
The June 2024 Peaceful Pill eHandbook Essentials update features a whole-of-chapter update on the Lethal Salts. The sale of sodium nitrite is currently in the headlines as the trial of Canadian former chef (and, according to Wikipedia, ‘sodium nitrite salesman’) edges closer. The number of alleged victims is increasing and the seriousness of the situation […]
June 16, 2024
Hungary’s refusal does not violate human rights
Hungary refusal of medically assisted death does not violate human rights writes Salma Ben Mariem in The Jurist. The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Hungarian authorities’ refusal of a citizen’s request to end his life by physician-assisted death doesn’t violate the European Convention on Human Rights. The case started with Daniel Karsai’s […]
June 7, 2024
Laura’s Choice Documentary Now Free on Youtube
The beautiful and lovingly created feature documentary Laura’s Choice is now freely available on Youtube. Documentary Synopsis Laura Henkel is eccentric, outspoken, feisty and 90 years old. She has decided she wants to end her life on her own terms. She does not have a terminal illness; she just wants to be in control of […]
June 6, 2024
Voluntary assisted dying laws have been passed in the ACT
The Australian Capital Territory parliament passed its voluntary assisted dying law yesterday by 20 to five write: Ben White, Lindy Willmott & Madeleine Archer The ACT now joins the six Australian states, all of which have their own voluntary assisted dying laws. Like the states, the ACT law will begin after an 18-month implementation period. […]
May 27, 2024
Swiss Clinic Pegasos Apologises for Failures
As the debate around assisted dying gains pace in the UK, a clinic in Switzerland has apologised to the family of a man who took his own life without them knowing. ITV News UK Editor Paul Brand reports A clinic in Switzerland which helps hundreds of people to die each year has apologised to the […]
May 26, 2024
Physically healthy woman, 28, dies by euthanasia over ‘crippling depression’
A physically fit woman has tragically ended her life through scheduled euthanasia due to severe depression. Zoraya ter Beek, 28, resided in a quaint village in the Netherlands near the German border and chose to end her life via assisted suicide. Zoraya, who lived with her partner and two cats, opened up to local Dutch […]
May 12, 2024
Dutch Court Prosecution is Blamed for the Death of Loek de L.
This obituary was originally published in the newsletter of Cooperation Last Will organisation in the Netherlands. The author is Hans Peltenburg. Seven members of this group are currently being prosecuted for supplying sodium azide amongst themselves to their members. One of those being prosecuted was Loek de L. So now there are six… Loek died […]
May 1, 2024
93 Year Old Sentenced to 9 Years Jail for Murdering his Elderly Wife
By Elizabeth Byrne Canberra’s oldest killer will die in custody after he was sentenced to nine years in jail for the murder of his wife by the ACT Supreme Court on Monday. Donald Morley, 93, pleaded guilty after suffocating Jean Morley, 92, in her bed in July last year. It was the last act in […]
