Australia: Euthanasia advocate Nitschke revisits Tweed

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Dr Philip Nitschke will revisit the Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre tomorrow to conduct a Voluntary Euthanasia workshop for Exit International. First, there will be a public meeting on the topic "Why senior Australians should develop a practical end of life plan." Then, in a workshop, "We'll be able to go into the practical aspects, what are the drugs, what are the best drugs and most reliable drugs," he said. "There are plenty of drugs that will end your life but you don't want to mess around with things that might not work. "They want to know what will work, so we will go into that in some detail.

"And more importantly, how do you go about acquiring these drugs, because many of them are drugs that if you were to import them into this country you'd be breaking the law. "There's some you can get from a doctor but not many and you would have to go and tell lies to doctors and such."

Dr Nitschke said he will also be speaking about other suicide strategies, from helium inhalation to the newly developed Peaceful Pill.

[In news below, the Australian government says it is going ahead with censorship of the Internet. Last May, the web site of Nitschke's Peaceful Pill Handbook was discovered to be on a leaked blacklist.]

[Note: Some other recent stories related to this topic are in the Links: section below.]

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  • http://tinyurl.com/ybnbhro

  • http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/12/15/169885_gold-coast-news.html

    Also see:

  • Joining China and Iran, Australia to Filter Internet [Fox News]
    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/15/like-china-iran-australia-filter-internet/

    Australia is forging ahead with plans to filter Internet content in a bid to stop its citizens accessing obscene and crime-linked Web sites. Under the Chinese-style system, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country would be legally obliged to filter out banned material.

  • Australia: Big Brother laws to be brought in for web [The Age]
    http://www.theage.com.au/national/big-brother-laws-to-be-brought-in-for-web-20091215-kuka.html

    THE Federal Government will block selected online sites after trials found filtering was accurate and would not slow down the internet. But critics, including the online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam, said the trial results were not surprising and the policy was still flawed. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday he would introduce legislation just before next year's election to make internet service providers block a blacklist of "refused classification" websites.

  • Australian pensioner considers euthanasia [Tweed Daily News]
    http://www.euthanewsia.ca/archive/2009/06/enid200906258065.4.html

    From last June 25 EuthaNEWSia: Terri Bradley says that when the pain and indignity of her chronic illnesses become too much, she will end her life. "It is our life, our choice … no one should be able to say you can't go when you want, it is not right." She spoke with a Tweed Daily News reporter at a seminar run by Dr. Philip Nitschke. "However, as Dr Nitschke told about 100, mostly elderly, people at the Tweed Heads Civic Centre, Ms Bradley would have to die alone and in private, for if her friends or family were part of any voluntary euthanasia in New South Wales, they would risk 20 years in jail."

Source:

Dillaway, Ben. "Euthanasia advocate Nitschke on Tweed". The Gold Coast Bulletin. December 15th, 2009. <www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2009/12/15/169885_gold-coast-news.html>. The Gold Coast Bulletin, 385 Southport Nerang Rd, Molendinar, 4214, Queensland, Australia.

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  • euthanasia

  • censorship

  • Exit International

  • Philip Nitschke

  • Australia

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