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Dr Nitschke is the author of the best-selling practical methods guidebook The Peaceful Pill eHandbook. | |
>>> 'The Party's Over' - 2012 Aussie Workshop Tour
Posted 1 January 2012
On 1 March 2012, the drug 'propoxyphene' (Australian retail name 'Doloxene') will be removed from the Australian prescribing schedule.
In banning this drug, the Australian Government is following similar moves of countries such as the UK, New Zealand, South Africa & the US who have all removed the drug from their schedules.
The 2012 Australian Exit Workshop tour kicks off in Perth on 25 January 2012 concluding in Launceston on 16 February. The tour will discuss the short-lived 'Doloxene option' along with remaining drug & non-drug strategies.
To register, call the Exit office on 1300 10 3948 (EXIT) or download the Workshop Registration form.
>>> 'Die Friedliche Pille' Launches in Zurich
Posted 23 November 2011
In response to increasing demand, Exit International has been pleased to launch the first German language edition of the best-selling Peaceful Pill Handbook - titled Die Friedliche Pille.
Available in German direct from Exit at Peacefulpill.com and from Amazon.de (in Kindle format with the print edition to follow on 27 Nov 2011), Die Friedliche Pille was launched at a press conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich on Wednesday 23 November 2011.
Speaking at the launch, Vice President of Exit Schweiz, Mr Bernhard Sutter said the book was a welcome addition to the right to die movement as it gave the elderly and seriously ill the comfort of knowing their options for the future.
Read about/ Listen to the launch at Teletop.ch
- (right) Mr Bernhard Sutter & Dr Philip Nitschke at the book's launch -
>>> Exit UK Tour Achieves Successful 4/4 Workshops
Posted 21 November 2011
Exit is especially pleased with this outcome as on previous tours, multiple venues cancelled ahead of time thwarting the organisation's best attempts to speak to the elderly and seriously ill about their end of life options.
In November 2011 common sense has prevailed.
(pictured right, Exit Europe Coordinator Tom Curran & Eastbourne local Kathy Beech)
>>> Exit Member Pleads for SA Bill to Pass
Posted 24 September 2011
With the South Australian parliament due to vote for a third time this week on Labor MP Steph Key's Medical Decriminalisation Bill, Exit Member Terry O'Connell, who suffers from advanced MS has spoken out on ABC TV's Stateline SA.
>>> Don & Iris Flounders Die Peacefully at Home 'holding hands'
Posted 2 May 2011
On the evening of 28 April 2011, long-time Exit members Don & Iris Flounders finally drank the Nembutal they had obtained 3 years earlier in Tijuana. Terminally ill and bed-ridden with mesothelioma, Don said his quality of life had shrunk to the 4 walls of his bedroom.
Iris maintained to the end that she did not want to live on without him.
The final statement of the Flounders posted on You Tube on Monday 2 May 2011. Click HERE.
The UK's Daily Mail report of their passing can be found HERE.
The 7 News report of Don and Iris' trip to Tijuana can be viewed HERE.
>>> The Meaning of Life according to Philip Nitschke
Updated 13 March 2011 
Sunday night's guest on the ABC TV's flagship program Compass - Life's Big Questions with Scott Stephens - Dr Philip Nitschke, one of our most controversial Australians. Philip’s stand on voluntary euthanasia has inextricably connected him to death, and he has a lot to say about the meaning of life too.
The show can be viewed online HERE.
For more about Compass see http://www.abc.net.au/compass