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By Paul Russell, Founder, HOPE Australia On November 10, hearings began in Darwin, Northern Territory [Australia] into the decision last July of the South Australian division of the Medical Board of Australia to suspend the medical license of Philip Nitschke,...
By Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Notorious Australian euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke...
By Paul Russell, Founder, HOPE Australia The recent news of the suspension of Philip Nitschke’s medical license pending the medical board of Australia’s investigations is good news. But many have asked: why has it taken so long? The trigger issue for the...
By Wesley J. Smith I think it is time to start calling Peter Singer ”Professor Death.” The Princeton moral philosopher–an oxymoron in his case–is the world’s foremost proponent of infanticide. He usually uses examples of disabled babies, but the reason he...
By Paul Russell, Founder, HOPE Australia This weekend yet another story of 'death coaching' in The Australian written by journalist, Angela Shanahan. Shanahan opens her article by reminding readers of the suicide of Nancy Crick in Australia in 2002; how her...
By Paul Russell, founder, HOPE Australia Editor’s note. “Exit” is Philip Nitschke’s international organization. Nembutal is a lethal barbiturate. An hour after Philip Nitschke met today with South Australian Police over the recent Nembutal death, in Adelaide,...
By Paul Russell, Founder, Hope Australia Mary Porter is a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Canberra (ACT) Parliament. In recent years, Ms Porter has made end-of-life issues something of a leitmotif for her parliamentary career. In the Canberra Times...
“It was death-coaching, not life coaching, that killed him” By Paul Russell, Founder, HOPE Australia The Australian newspaper has a front-page article covering another death of a young man who had a very clear connection with Exit International. 26 year old...
By Paul Russell, Founder, HOPE Australia Following The Australian's news story today about another young life lost that was related to Philip Nitschke and the Exit organization, senior journalist, Angela Shanahan says that Nitschke and Exit must be stopped....
By Wesley J. Smith We are quickly becoming a pro-suicide culture–indeed to the point now that organizations like the Hemlock Society Compassion and Choices, bioethicists, and the mainstream media promote suicide by self-starvation as the new big thing in making...