The Peaceful Pill Handbook : 2017 Edition

"The Peaceful Pill Handbook is the leading self-help assisted suicide guide to responsible end of life planning for Seniors and folk who are seriously ill. The Handbook aims to provide critical information, knowledge, power and control to those who care about when and how they will die. The Handbook provides detailed discussion and analysis of strategies in lay language which everyone can understand. Chapters are: Assisted Suicide and the law, The Exit Reliability-Peacefulness Test, Hypoxic death and the Exit bag (Nitrogen), drug options, poisons (good and bad), problems of Morphine and the other opiates, prescription drug options of Propoxyphene, Amytriptyline, Chloroquine, Insulin, Chloral Hydrate and Nembutal including information on testing, storage, administration and online scammers. Also included is in-depth discussion about the Swiss Options. The book concludes with advice on living wills, testamentary capacity and autopsy procedures." --

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Dr Philip Nitschke, PhD MBBS BSc (Hons), is the Founder of the euthanasia and assisted suicide non-profit organization, Exit International.In 1996, Philip became the first physician in the world to administer voluntary euthanasia via a legal, lethal voluntary injection under the short-lived Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of the Northern Territory in 1996.Four of Philip's terminally ill patients used this law to end their suffering before the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act was overturned in March 1997 by the Australian Parliament.Philip was awarded his PhD in applied physics from Flinders University in 1972.Philip graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1988. He retired from medical practice in 1997 and his medical registration was controversially suspended by the Medical Board of Australia in July 2014.A decision on 7 July 2015 by the Northern Territory Supreme Court found the Medical Board of Australia's decision to be unlawful and Dr Nitschke's right to be registered as a medical practitioner in Australia was immediately restored.Philip retired his medical registration of his own volition in November 2015 by burning his medical license at a press conference in Darwin.Today, Philip lives in Europe. He continues to travel widely holding Public Meetings & Exit Workshops on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Fiona Stewart, PhD MPolLaw LLB (Hons) BA, is a public health sociologist & lawyer with a background spanning academia, online start-ups and the media.Fiona has always maintained strong feminist beliefs in regards to euthanasia and assisted dying. With her legal background she has particular interest and expertise in areas such as the living will, advance directive and enduring power of attorney across various jurisdictions.With a strong track-record in social science research, Fiona has been the recipient of research grants from the World Health Organisation, Rotary International, the Australian Research Council and the National Health & Medical Research Council. Fiona has published widely in both the mainstream press media and in peer-reviewed academic journals and edited collections.In 2014, Fiona stood as a candidate for the Voluntary Euthanasia Party in the Victorian State Election where her region polled 0.77% of the vote for the Upper House Southern metropolitan region.Dr Stewart lives in the Netherlands.

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