Wesley Smith explains the hypocrisy in the argument for a right to die. GG Bridge Suicide Barrier Violates Right to DeathBy Wesley J. SmithWe are told continually by the "right to die" crowd that suicide/euthanasia is the "ultimate civil liberty." Indeed, these purveyors of suicide argue that we all of the RIGHT to determine the time, manner, method, and place of death. Continue reading

The 10th of September is World Suicide Prevention Day. Are you okay? was the slogan for Suicide Prevention Day a year back. This year Suicide prevention Australia is asking people to support their push to halve suicides in Australia by 2023 - a worthy project for which they need your support.  You can sign up to their petition for government assistance at their Continue reading

In the lead up to the recent  UK Court of Appeal decision to maintain the law on assisting in suicide, UK disability advocate, Richard Hawkes, asks the obvious question. This report from ITV online: Continue reading

A sad tale of grief and unanswered questions from the UK :Croydon Guardian Continue reading

  Health writer for the Melbourne The Age Continue reading

  Last week the UK Mail Online Continue reading

Suicide contagion, also known as the Werther effect, is a well-documented phenomenon of serious concern for young people.  Also called "copycat syndrome", the understanding that knowledge of a youth suicide creates risk factors amongst peer groups, school classmates and even 'friends-of-friends' networks has been taken  seriously now by educators, police and the media for decades. Continue reading

  Readers will recall the stories and my comments a few weeks ago about Philip Nitschke and Exit International's new death scheme, providing hypoxic (suffocation) death using nitrogen.  Continue reading

It took a while, but Exit International supremo, Philip Nitschke has responded today to the issues raised last week in respect to his latest move to supply nitrogen kits for suicides. Contrary to his assertions, my interest is not a political consideration at all. I'm concerned solely about the public safety aspect.Nor am I motivated to somehow dispose of a euthanasia activist. Nitschke's activism actually supports our cause in strange ways in that his advocacy for such things as death clinics and mobile death vans actually shows where euthanasia & assisted suicide type legislation ultimately could go. Continue reading

The roll out of Exit International and Dr. Nitschke's latest project, the provision of kits that include a nitrogen cylinder to bring about death by suffocation, should ring alarm bells with the Australian public and regulatory authorities. His comments in the Herald Sun and Dennis Shanahan's article in Continue reading