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The Peaceful Pill Handbook is a book that provides information on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Written by the Australian doctor Philip Nitschke and lawyer Fiona Stewart, it was originally published in the U.S. in 2006. A German edition of the print book—Die Friedliche Pille—was published in 2011.
Philip Haig Nitschke [1] (/ ˈ n ɪ tʃ k ɪ /; born 8 August 1947) is an Australian humanist, author, former physician, and founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International. He campaigned successfully to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern Territory and assisted four people in ending their lives before ...
Exit International was founded by Philip Nitschke in 1997 after the over-turning of the world's first Voluntary Euthanasia law—the Rights of the Terminally Ill (ROTI) Act enacted in the Northern Territory, Australia. During the ROTI Act, Nitschke became the first physician in the world to administer a legal, lethal, voluntary injection. [2]
Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart: 2007 Instructional manual on euthanasia: Initially banned in New Zealand by Office of Film & Literature Classification since it was deemed to be objectionable. [194] In May 2008 an edited version of the book was allowed for sale if sealed and an indication of the censorship classification was displayed.
The design software allows for devices of different sizes to be made according to the client's dimensions. Nitschke has said that the design is intended to resemble that of a spaceship, in order to give users the feel that they are traveling to the "great beyond". [9] Nitschke planned to release the open source plans for the Sarco by 2019. [7]
Fiona Stewart is an Australian lawyer, sociologist, author, and former executive director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International (2004-7). She is author of Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the road to the Peaceful Pill and co-author of The Peaceful Pill Handbook, and is married to euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke.
Warning: This story contains sensitive content The death of an American woman in an assisted suicide capsule has led to criminal proceedings being launched against several people in Switzerland.
In 2009, Philip Nitschke, founder of voluntary euthanasia organisation Exit International, wrote in a member newsletter that nitrogen has a lower risk of an adverse reaction by the body than helium and is also more available than helium in Australia and New Zealand. [18]