Exit International - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 08 Aug 2019 11:02:36 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Exit International - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Aussies live-stream euthanasia deaths to Nitschke https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/08/08/australia-livestream-deaths-nitschke/ Thu, 08 Aug 2019 07:51:40 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=120135 The man known as Australia's "Dr Death" has created a private live-streaming service so he can watch in real-time as members of his euthanasia group end their lives. It might seem macabre to some but right-to-die campaigner Philip Nitschke says it's all in the name of science. The founder of Exit International wants to be Read more

Aussies live-stream euthanasia deaths to Nitschke... Read more]]> The man known as Australia's "Dr Death" has created a private live-streaming service so he can watch in real-time as members of his euthanasia group end their lives.

It might seem macabre to some but right-to-die campaigner Philip Nitschke says it's all in the name of science.

The founder of Exit International wants to be sure that a cheap and readily available substance that's fast emerging as a new choice for elected deaths actually delivers a peaceful ending.

Dr Nitschke says two Australians, both from Brisbane, used the substance to die in May. Read more

Aussies live-stream euthanasia deaths to Nitschke]]> 120135 Cannabis the only thing that helped my dying wife https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/04/22/cannabis-helped-dying-wife/ Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:54:41 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=82079 Cannabis was the only 'medicine' that helped his wife's pain, and relieved the uncontrollable and agonising muscle spasms that MS sufferers endure said visiting Irish assisted dying campaigner Tom Curran. He was speaking to 80 people in Nelson's Fairfield House at a meeting organised by Nelson Options, the local chapter of voluntary euthanasia group Exit Read more

Cannabis the only thing that helped my dying wife... Read more]]> Cannabis was the only 'medicine' that helped his wife's pain, and relieved the uncontrollable and agonising muscle spasms that MS sufferers endure said visiting Irish assisted dying campaigner Tom Curran.

He was speaking to 80 people in Nelson's Fairfield House at a meeting organised by Nelson Options, the local chapter of voluntary euthanasia group Exit International.

Curran is European coordinator of Exit International, and has represented the right to die movement in many countries.

Curran's wife Marie Fleming died in 2013 after a failed court bid to permit an assisted death.

He said she was "a very strong Catholic."

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