June 27, 2021
Voluntary assisted dying to become law in South Australia
The ABC reports: Voluntary assisted dying to become law in South Australia after a three-decade long battle by voluntary euthanasia campaigners, South Australia has become the fourth state in the nation to pass legislation on voluntary assisted dying, after eleventh-hour amendments to the bill, so says the ABC. Key points South Australia has joined Victoria, […]
June 20, 2021
Striving for Last Rights to Die For
While Queensland Parliament argues over voluntary assisted dying legislation, euthanasia advocate Cath Henderson is striving for last rights to die for and says a shocking number of Gold Coast residents are already taking matters into their own hands. Two cancers, 12 years, multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation … it all added up to the […]
June 20, 2021
Scotland to Consider Assisted Dying Again
Scotland to Consider Assisted Dying Again in a new bill to legalise assisted dying [that] will be lodged at the Scottish Parliament, the BBC has learned. The proposals – brought forward by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur – aim to introduce the right to an assisted death for terminally ill, mentally competent adults. Previous attempts […]
June 13, 2021
Holocaust Survivor Zsuzsi Yardley dies in Switzerland
Exit Life Member – Zsuzsi Yardley – died at Pegasos in Liestal Switzerland on 3 June 2021. Shortly before her death Zsuzsi wrote: Dear Friends, It is more than fifty years ago that I joined a campaigning organisation for the right to make choices at the end of life, called Exit. Organisations change, their names […]
May 30, 2021
California Advocates for More Humane EOL Law
This week news that yet another End of Life Choices law is to be made more progressive with the move that ‘California Advocates for More Humane EOL Law’, thus proving that medicalised laws have – by their very nature – restrictions which can be cruel and unnecessarily cumbersome to those dying people who are seeking […]
May 17, 2021
The New Yorker: We’ve Had Great Success Extending Life. What About Ending It?
The New Yorker: We’ve Had Great Success Extending Life. What About Ending It? – Throughout most of the seventeenth century, residents of London could buy, from street hawkers who fought one another for sales territory, a peculiar sort of newspaper. It cost a penny, sold about five or six thousand copies a week, and consisted […]
May 9, 2021
Swiss doctor Erika Preisig is cleared of murder again
The Swiss doctor Erika Preisig is cleared of murder again of helping a mentally ill woman take her life has once more been cleared of intentional homicide. A Swiss appeals court in canton Basel rejected attempts by prosecutors to overturn a 2019 verdict that had cleared the doctor of murder. The court upheld the earlier […]
May 4, 2021
Laura’s Choice Secures International Distribution
The universal subject matter of Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel’s documentary Laura’s Choice has been recognised by distributor Off The Fence, which has picked up the project for international sales. The film details the life and death of Laura Henkel, a 90-year-old that has decided she wants to end her life on her own terms, […]
