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A suicide bag, also known as an exit bag or hood, [1] [2] is part of a euthanasia device consisting of a large plastic bag with a drawcord used to die by suicide through inert gas asphyxiation. It is usually used in conjunction with a flow of an inert gas that is lighter or less dense than air, like helium or nitrogen .
Nitschke described his device as a modification of the exit bag with helium method described in The Peaceful Pill Handbook. Helium was replaced by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen and a regulator to supply the nitrogen into a plastic bag. One advantage of this method was the availability of larger amounts of nitrogen and flow rates last longer.
Five Last Acts II followed in 2010, [15] and Five Last Acts - The Exit Path in 2013. [16] A major update to the latter was released in May 2015 after concerns had been raised over helium balloon gas being diluted with air by some manufacturers. [17] [18] Exit then published the world's first guide to using welding gas nitrogen as an alternative ...
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, often shortened to just Final Exit, is a 1991 book written by Derek Humphry, a British-born American journalist, author, and assisted suicide advocate who co-founded the now-defunct Hemlock Society in 1980 and co-founded the Final Exit Network in 2004.
Exceptionally, in four cases in 2008, Dignitas used helium gas [12] as a suicide method instead of a pentobarbital overdose. The medical supervision was still observed, however, and the method avoided controlled drugs, which reduced the risk of medical authorities disciplining the medical doctor who authorized the accompanied suicide.
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An Italian edition—La pillola della quiete—was published in 2018. [1] A Dutch edition— De vredige pil —was published in 2018. In 2008, the online handbook— The Peaceful Pill eHandbook —was launched, containing video clips on assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia methods and related issues, but it does not provide "how-to ...
Final Exit Network, Inc. (FEN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit right to die advocacy group incorporated under Florida law. [1] It holds that mentally competent adults who suffer from a terminal illness , intractable pain, or irreversible physical (though not necessarily terminal) conditions have a right to voluntarily end their lives . [ 2 ]