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April 6, 2022

Family threaten legal action against Swiss assisted suicide clinic.

Family threaten legal action against Swiss assisted suicide clinic where American woman died Krista Atkins rejected her family’s concerns just before her death by suicide in June 2020.  The family of an American woman who died by assisted suicide in Switzerland has threatened to take legal action against the clinic where she died. Krista Atkins, […]

April 3, 2022

Deaths of Arizona Sisters Spark War Over Assisted Suicide

The Daily Beast, Barbie Latza Nadeau

When the friends and family of Lila Ammouri, 54, and Susan Frazier, 49, found out that the Arizona sisters had died by high-priced assisted suicide in Switzerland in early February, emotions ranged from rage to dismay. How could it be that two healthy, affluent health-care professionals—Ammouri a doctor, Frazier a registered nurse—could go to such […]

April 3, 2022

What Anthony Albanese once said about EOL

What Anthony Albanese once said about EOL (end of life) rights was that it was Bob Dent’s decision and he had that right. On 22 September 1996, Darwin man Bob Dent became the first person in the world to receive a legal, lethal, voluntary injection under the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of the […]

April 3, 2022

What Annah & the Sisters have in Common

This week saw more sensational reaction to the death of Exit members, Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier in The Daily Beast online magazine. Correspondent ‘at large’ Barbie Latza Nadeau (in Italy), was in detailed contact with me in recent days, in an attempt to set the record straight. While her article ‘Deaths of Arizona Sisters […]

April 1, 2022

Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide

Associated Press, GENE JOHNSON

Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide and so will no longer require people to be residents of the state to use its law allowing terminally ill people to receive lethal medication, after a lawsuit challenged the requirement as unconstitutional, reports Associated Press. In a settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on […]

April 1, 2022

New Essentials Edition – Soon to be Published

In the coming months, Exit will publish complete re-write of the existing Peaceful Pill eHandbook. This is the first complete overhaul of the book since it was originally published online in 2008. The aim is to condense 554 pages to < 200 pages: succinctly, clearly and with gusto. Existing subscribers will have their subscriptions automatically […]

March 29, 2022

Arizona sisters who died by assisted suicide in Switzerland were ‘tired of life’

The Arizona sisters who died by assisted suicide in Switzerland were ‘tired of life’ reports The Independent. Sisters Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier decided to end their lives at a Swiss assisted dying clinic after becoming “tired of life”, according to an advocate who was advising them. Dr Ammouri, a palliative care doctor aged 54, […]

March 29, 2022

DEATH POD I invented a ‘suicide machine’ – and I might even use it one day

The Sun, Jamie Harris

THE inventor of a controversial suicide pod says ‘DEATH POD I invented a ‘suicide machine’ – and I might even use it one day’. “Dr Death” – real name Dr Philip Nitschke – made headlines last year after claiming his Sarco capsule could be used in Switzerland from 2022, allowing those who are seriously sick […]