April 22, 2016
Exit Life Member Emeritus Professor Avril Henry Suicides at 81
Daily Mail UK, Martin Robinson (Chief Reporter)
Campaigner: Dr Avril Henry, 82, an advocate of assisted suicide, has been found dead days after a police raid sparked by an Interpol alert that she had imported euthanasia drugs from Mexico An 82-year-old professor has died days after police kicked down her door when Interpol traced assisted suicide drugs to her Devon cottage from Mexico. […]
April 19, 2016
Cannabis kept my wife going, Irish assisted dying campaigner tells Nelson group
Cannabis provided by the local policeman helped to prolong his wife’s life, Irish assisted dying campaigner Tom Curran has told a Nelson audience. Curran’s wife Marie Fleming died in 2013 after a failed court bid to permit an assisted death. Before and since, he has continued to campaign for people’s right to choose. He is […]
April 17, 2016
Exit 20th Anniversary ROTI Conference: 22-23 September 2016
On 22 – 23 September at the State Library of Victoria, Exit International held a brilliant 20th anniversary conference. The conference marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Darwin man Bob Dent. On this day in 1996, Bob, suffering from prostate cancer, was the first person in the world to receive a legal, lethal, […]
April 12, 2016
Visting Euthanasia Advocates Securing their Own Way Out
The Dominion Post, Rachel Clayton
Tom Curran and his wife Marie Fleming, who died of Multiple Sclerosis in 2013 after a failed legal fight to legalise euthanasia in Ireland. Ann Mace organised for her mother to starve to death. “She had a stroke and was left totally, completely and utterly paralysed and I had to say I don’t want her […]
March 27, 2016
Dr Death comedy show labelled ‘despicable’, ‘sick’ & ‘dangerous’
RIGHT to Life Australia has slammed as sick and dangerous a Melbourne International Comedy Festival show from controversial Territory-based euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke. The deregistered doctor’s show, Dicing with Dr Death, is part of the festival’s official program and broadcaster Derryn Hinch is on board to demonstrate Nitschke’s “destiny” suicide machine using non-lethal gas. Right […]
March 25, 2016
Right to Die Advocates to Share Ideas at Public Meeting
HIGH profile voluntary euthanasia advocates Philip Nitschke and Tom Curran will hold a free public meeting at Federation University on April 4. Mr Curran and his wife, multiple sclerosis sufferer Marie Fleming, became the public face of Right to Die Ireland after Marie argued she had a Constitutional right to an assisted suicide as she would become too disabled to act […]
March 17, 2016
Dr Death Seeks Melbourne Celebrity to be Gassed On Stage
Philip Nitschke’s new “Destiny” euthanasia machine will be unveiled at the Australian premiere of his show ‘Dicing with Dr Death’ in Melbourne on 3 April. A modified and updated version of his hit from the 2015 Ed Fringe, the performance looks at the growth of DIY suicide methods, giving tips to the audience on the […]
March 1, 2016
Nitschke Calls for Euthanasia Drug Testing
AAP Australian Associated Press
A planned pill testing scheme for music festival-goers in NSW should be extended to the elderly, euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke says. A team of doctors led by president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Alex Wodak, on Sunday vowed to roll out a pill testing trial at festivals in a bid to save young […]