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Helium canisters have become available in Australia which can be used with a plastic bag for a peaceful and quick self-deliverance. This method has been used in the U.S. and Canada and is described in the third edition of Final Exit by Derek Humphry. Other methods being developed are the CoGenie, a carbon monoxide generator and a new Catalytic converter generator (the “CarGen”).

Phililp Nitschke and Dr. Fiona Stewart just released their new book, Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill amid media and public attention in Australia. It is the explanation for Dr. Nitschke’s pursuit of methods people can use themselves though it is not a how-to book.

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by Derek Humphry

The Australian parliament is likely to pass a law banning information about suicide from being given on the internet, by phone—or publication and distribution of research—on new methods of self-deliverance. Clearly aimed at Dr. Philip Nitschke and his Exit International activities, the government will be able to tap Exit’s phones, infiltrate and screen Exit’s faxes and emails, and monitor Exit’s website and listservs.

The Schiavo case and the movies ‘The Sea Inside’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby’ have reawoken interest in Right-to-Die.

The latest developments on assisted dying in Europe: Case Law Developments or Cases in National Courts, Books Published, Research published or currently undertaken, Opinion Polls, Campaigns, Cases that have attracted public media attention, Other issues.

Elke Baezner spoke at a conference in Luxembourg on accompanied suicide in Switzerland, in view of adding assisted suicide to the statutes of ADMD-L.In view of adding assisted suicide to the statut

Addition of assisted suicide to the statutes of ADMD-LIn January, the committtee suggested an amendment to the text of its original statutes established in 1988.

The French parliament adopted early Wednesday, April 13th, a law that would grant terminally ill patients the “right to die” by allowing them to put a stop to medical treatment, but did not legalize mercy killing.

A legislative committee endorsed making California the second state in the nation where doctors could prescribe medication to hasten the deaths of terminally ill adults.