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The Peaceful Pill eHandbook
by Dr Philip Nitschke with Dr Fiona Stewart
Online: US$85 (2 year subscription)
Print: US$30
The Peaceful Pill eHandbook is a fully-online & regularly updated "ebook" that sets a new international standard in publishing. The PPeH is:
- Updated 6x per year
- Contains > 2.5 hours of video footage
- Subscription includes 24 months of updates
- Subscription includes membership (on approval) of the Peaceful Pill Forums
- Viewable on up to 3 PCs/ Macs
- Printable on demand
- No special software required
- Online/ offline sources of Nembutal (eg. South America & SE Asia, the Net) & Legal Considerations
- Drug-testing
- Useful prescription drugs & Legal Considerations
- Inert gases (eg. Helium/Nitrogen) (& gas flow control systems)
- Poisons
- Dignitas service in Zurich
Online & Print editions of The Peaceful Pill Handbook is available fromfrom Exit US' Online Store
The History of the Peaceful Pill Handbook
In December 2006, the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) classified The Peaceful Pill Handbook "Restricted Class 1" (meaning it could not be sold to those aged under 18 years and must be packaged in plain wrap).
At the request of the then Australian Attorney General, Philip Ruddock & on appeal from Right to Life Australia the OFLC Review Board was asked to reconsider their classification decision.
On 25 February 2007 (2 weeks after the first print run hit the bookshops), the Review Board of the OFLC reversed their previous decision, awarding The Peaceful Pill Handbook with a "Refused Classification" (RC) rating.
The print edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook is now banned from sale in Australia.
A heavily censored edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook was approved for sale in New Zealand in June 2008 & may be obtained from bookstores nationally. This edition contains around 30 blacked out pages.
To read the Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock's statement of Friday 12 January 2007, click HERE
To read the decision of the Australian Office of Film & Literature Classification, click HERE
To read Exit Director, Dr Philip Nitschke's statement, click HERE
To read more of the history of censorship of this book visit
I Bequeath the Python
by Elaine Arch-Rowe
US$10
Pulished in April 2007 and authored by Exit Gold Coast Chapter Coordinator Elaine Arch-Rowe, I Bequeath the Python is the ultimate end-of-life planning guide. Written with humour and fully illustrated, Python offers tips on all manner of planning from Advance Medical Directives to funeral preferences and, of course, who gets 'the Python.'
I Bequeath the Python is a great way to get families talking about end-of-life planning, thus ensuring that no one gets the funeral they don't want and anyone wishing to donate their body to science knows exactly how to go about it.
Killing Me Softly: VE and the Road to the Peaceful Pill
by Dr Philip Nitschke & Dr Fiona Stewart
(published by Penguin 2005 - republished January 2011)
US$29.95
Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill explains the philosophy behind Dr Philip Nitschke's life work at Exit International.
Part biography, part political call to arms, Killing Me Softly documents:
* historic time of the world's first right-to-die law;
* provides cutting-edge analysis of the medico-legal model which constrains the global right to die debate
* documents Exit's modus operandi; and
* lays out Exit's direction and aspirations for the future
- most specifically the 'universal model' offered by the 'Peaceful Pill' which could revolutionise voluntary euthanasia, just as the contraceptive pill transformed birt control a generation ago.
Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr Jack Kevorkian and the Assisted Suicide Machine and the Battle to Legalise Euthanasia
by Neal Nicol & Harry Wylie
(published by Vision Paperbacks London, 2006)
Jack Kevorkian is best known for inventing the 'suicide machine' and being an outspoken proponent of the right to die with dignity. He has revolutionised the way that the world thinks about living wills, physician assisted suicide and euthanasia.
About the Authors
Neal Nicol has been a friend and co-worker of Dr Jack Kevorkian since 1961. While Jack has been in prison, Neal has continued to visit regularly and be a steadfast supporter of the right to die.
Harry Wylie is a long-time friend and confidant of Dr Jack Kevorkian who, like Neal, and with his wife Arlene have visited Jack regularly since his incarceration.
Jack Kevorkian was paroled on 1 June 2007 after serving 9 years of a 25 year sentence for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill patient. This book is currently being made into a Hollywood film featuring Al Pacino.
To purchase Between the Dying and the Dead online, click HERE
To download a fax/mail order form, click HERE