Enabling choice at the end of life
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Five Last Acts II
Five Last Acts 2nd Edition (Click image to order). Helium, Drugs, Compression Technique, Plastic Bags, Starvation-Dehydration examined & explained. The authoritative guide.
For even more: Five Last Acts – The Exit Path
● Five Last Acts: The Exit Path 2015. ● 822 pages. ● The world's first and most authoritative book to include self-euthanasia with nitrogen ● over 100 illustrations and ‘how-to‘ diagrams. ● Over 1000 references. ● tables & charts ● Tips and checklists ● scientific evidence. "This is quite a tome! But for a very detailed and clear examination of all the background to the technical intricacies of the movement for the right to choose to die it is in a class on its own. This book is for the science-minded DIY person. A most unusual book." – Derek Humphry
Category Archives: living will
Directives or values… ?
… two methods, working together Dr Quill’s book on voluntarily stopping eating and drinking frequently refers to values. But knowing someone “cares passionately about death with dignity” will not always help the health care team, or the proxy, decide on … Continue reading
Highlights from the print edition
The third issue of our new all-colour magazine is proving popular with our supporters. Time to share some snippets with all our online visitors and subscribers! Our cover story looked at the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut who had some very … Continue reading
New print publications available on Amazon
To keep pace with the changes in availability of helium, additional sections have been added to the books Five Last Acts II and Five Last Acts – The Exit Path. At over 400 pages, the first of these is one … Continue reading
Living wills again
Exit’s main work is associated with research into self-deliverance (“self-euthanasia” or “rational suicide” as it is also referred to). Yet along the way, living wills have also been a major area of research. We published the first volume of Collected … Continue reading
The choice to face your choices
What does choice mean when you visit a website such as this? Often we talk about choice as if it is something that is a right, something we believe in, or something we want to have. It rather implies that … Continue reading
What would you do? Let the individual decide.
In the first week of the new year came the news of an elderly ill couple that had ended their lives together. As people read these words, their responses may be of many different kinds. There are those who are, … Continue reading
Liberté for France??
Romantic suicide fever has gripped the French media in the past week after an 86-year-old couple, described as brilliant intellectuals, ended their lives together last Friday. Three days later, a second Parisian couple, aged 84 and 81, were found dead … Continue reading
How will you die?
We are all going to do it at some point in our lives, but popular conceptions can be far from reality. Characters in soap operas, for instance, tend not only die quickly but mostly from unusual causes. In reality, most … Continue reading
Putting it in writing
A watchdog committee has found that hundreds of people are being given inappropriate end-of-life care, and a substantial number being resuscitated against their wishes. (What follows is a lengthier article than usual, but we feel it may be of interest … Continue reading
Do you plan ahead?
Exit is mostly about how to end your life in circumstances of unbearable and unrelievable suffering. But once we’ve got the mechanics of self-deliverance as second-knowledge, once we’ve made our peace with ourselves and others, there are still a million … Continue reading
Advance directive on leading Oscars contender
George Clooney is in the running for yet more awards for his performance in this moving, sometimes tearful, family comedy drama about a man who loses his wife. As different family members struggle to come to terms with ‘switching the … Continue reading
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