{"id":1410,"date":"2014-10-30T14:03:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T05:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exitinternational.net\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T06:13:17","slug":"spike-in-exit-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euthanasia.net\/exit\/spike-in-exit-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike in Exit Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2014 Exit Membership underwent an extraordinary spike and record growth of the organisation&#8217;s Australian membership was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The only possible explanation was the screening on July 3rd of the ABC 7.30 Report story that looked into the death of alleged West Australian serial killer Nigel Brayley and his contact with Exit International and its founder Dr Philip Nitschke. A similar spike in sales of the Peaceful Pill <em>e<\/em>Handbook was also noticed.<\/p>\n<p>The ABC Report spread the Exit word and put the issue of rational suicide centre of national debate. Journalist Caitlen Gribben is now in line for a 2014 Walkely award for her story and Exit is hopeful that a similar surge in interest in this topic (and membership of Exit) will be generated on awards night on December 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2014 Exit Membership underwent an extraordinary spike and record growth of the organisation&#8217;s Australian membership was recorded. The only possible explanation was the screening on July 3rd of the ABC 7.30 Report story that looked into the death of alleged West Australian serial killer Nigel Brayley and his contact with Exit International and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euthanasia.net\/exit\/spike-in-exit-membership\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spike in Exit Membership - Exit International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In July 2014 Exit Membership underwent an extraordinary spike and record growth of the organisation&#8217;s Australian membership was recorded. 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