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Who is allowed to die? (peacefully)

The death of 59-year-old man in a Derbyshire Travelodge hotel has raised many issues – from kindness and consideration to privacy and intrusive laws. More worryingly, it raises the blurry line between rational suicide and the regrettable deaths of individuals … Continue reading

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Workshops warn dangers chemical suicide

Rational suicide using a tank of helium and a helium hood in a car (in a secluded place where discovery and interruption is unlikely) is a peaceful and painless method if anyone should be in a situation where suffering has … Continue reading

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Death panic

There is a degree of obsessiveness – in an entirely healthy sense – about wanting to be in control of one’s own life. For some people, this includes being in control of the moments just before one of life’s biggest … Continue reading

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More rights & wrongs of how to die – compression

Ins & outs of compression A slightly worrying variation on the compression method of suicide surfaced recently when a newspaper reported a 15-yr old using a blood-pressure cuff around his neck. He probably didn’t intend to die by suicide – … Continue reading

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Chemicals suicide vs helium gas death

Exit doesn’t publish ‘how-to’ information on its website – that is reserved for the literature and workshops. But a twenty second google search will tell you how to end your life with helium. Only slightly longer is needed to find … Continue reading

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Important: Gladd bags discontinued

Following raids by the authorities, members or other persons hoping to obtain a GLADD bag should not send off a cheque or money as the order will not be fulfilled and could be traced. See also: Attempts to ban suicide … Continue reading

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Terminal, unbearably ill, or ‘just’ tired of life?

A number of news stories these past few days have highlighted differences between ‘right-to-die’ groups and also the myths perpetrated by the ‘pro-life’ groups. An elderly, arthritic woman dies at the Zurich assisted suicide clinic; an elderly woman being evicted … Continue reading

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Attempts to ‘ban suicide’

Oregon lawmakers are looking at the possibility of legislation to outlaw a plastic bag with a piece of tubing sewn into it. They cite a death of a man who was suffering greatly but not terminally ill, and who’s family … Continue reading

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Suicide by painful chemical gas – not the way to go!

Exit has received information that persons are resorting to risky methods of rational (or irrational) suicide. The trend to use chemicals began in third-world countries and with information coming from Japan, but appears to be spreading to the Western world. … Continue reading

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Can I die at home please?

It’s a question many of us may ask. Either to a doctor or as a silent plea. Sometimes when I am just poorly with the flu I try to think about it. My choice would probably be self-deliverance. Would I … Continue reading

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Helium and dementia

A few days before he committed suicide with his wife of 53 years, Daniel Gute, a retired physician, wrote a note explaining their mutual decision to die. The two-page handwritten letter is signed by both Gute and his wife, Katherine, … Continue reading

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