December 5, 2013
Philip Nitschke’s Adelaide euthanasia clinic comes under police scrutiny
Police across Australia have contacted euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke over recent deaths involving items for sale at his new Adelaide-based clinic. Dr Nitschke, who founded voluntary euthanasia advocacy group Exit International, set up the clinic in suburban Adelaide last month. He says the clinic’s reach extends well beyond South Australia, with online consultations now occurring […]
November 27, 2013
Euthanasia: Hope you never need it, but be glad the option is there
The time was always going to come when society would need to face the pointy end of the voluntary euthanasia debate: Those hard cases that would challenge most people’s support for the issue, the cases and circumstances which constitute never-before trodden ground. While in most Western countries polls repeatedly show strong community support for a […]
November 25, 2013
Why Adelaide is my euthanasia clinic HQ (despite Bernardi)
I knew that as soon as I mentioned the words “euthanasia clinic” some stakeholders in this emotive debate would have apoplexy. Sure enough, Armageddon is now on the horizon. At least that is how some portray the future as it relates to the quiet, leafy, inner-city suburb of Walkerville in Adelaide. When my wife and […]
November 20, 2013
Council investigates Nitschke’s euthanasia clinic
Walkerville deputy mayor Carolyn Wigg briefed council last night at its regular monthly meeting, advising councillors that “while Nitschke has moved in, nothing’s happened yet”. Wigg said Council had not received any application to run a medical clinic. Councillors were told last night that an investigation will take place in accordance with its Development Enforcement […]
November 20, 2013
Police inspect Dr Philip Nitschke’s new euthanasia clinic in Adelaide
Police have inspected a clinic run by euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke. He opened the site in Adelaide in recent days, saying it would provide information to people wishing to end their lives and run laboratory tests on drugs. Dr Nitschke said he had not been contacted by the South Australian Government about his clinic. The […]
October 14, 2013
Nitschke Autobiography to be launched in Tasmania
Melbourne University Press will host the Tasmanian launch of the autobiography of Exit International’s Dr Philip Nitschke this week. Written with Peter Corris, Damned If I Do traces Philip’s remarkable life from boyhood in rural South Australia to his ground-breaking work in the right-to-die movement. This is the revealing, personal story of the man behind […]
September 16, 2013
Jay Franklin tells his story to ABC’s 4 Corners
After 36 years struggling with that situation, Jay Franklin says he’s had enough and he wants to end his own life. Because assisted suicide, or voluntary euthanasia, is illegal in Australia he is forced to apply to Switzerland to fulfil his wish. Jay’s story raises many questions: why doesn’t society allow an individual with an […]
June 25, 2013
London workshop attendees battle wierdos at door
A crowd of more than 100 elderly and seriously ill folk were forced to battle PAID black-robed, anonymous protestors representing the ‘Care not Killing’ Coalition to gain entry to Dragon Hall in London on Tuesday in order to attend Exit’s Workshop. It was only when the demonstrators were unable to engage in debate about VE […]