your exit plan
The aim of The Peaceful Pill Handbook is to empower our readers to develop an end of life Exit Plan, as an insurance policy for the future.
Most hope they will never need such a plan. Everyone can find comfort from knowing that they have the means of a peaceful and reliable DIY death, should the need ever arise.
Philosophy
At Exit we believe that every adult of sound mind should have access to the option of a good death, at a time of their choosing. Not only people who are terminally ill.
A good death requires sound & considered decision-making.
Informed decision-making depends upon access to the best end-of-life information.
The Peaceful Pill eHandbook – Essentials edition provides this information.
Who inspired us
As authors, Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart acknowledge the pioneering work of Dr Jack Kevorkian and Derek Humphry (author of Final Exit) and the late Dutch Supreme Court Judge, Huib Drion.
Final Exit was the first book to treat euthanasia or ‘self-deliverance’ as a civil right. To clarify, Final Exit provided information that enabled readers to plan ahead.
Together, these activists have written much of the history of the voluntary assisted dying movement.
The Peaceful Pill Handbook was first published in 2006.
The book was banned in Australia on appeal by the Federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, the following year.
The Peaceful Pill Handbook is freely available outside of Australia.
The Peaceful Pill Handbook is published in German, Dutch, French, Italian & Spanish.
Are our books for you?
Access to reliable, end-of-life information is critical to being able to make informed decisions about one’s life & death.
Some readers will want this information in the context of palliative care.
Others will see an end of life plan as an ‘insurance policy’ for the future.
A well-considered ‘right to die’ plan is an important part of overall life-planning (for instance like an Advance Directive).
Most importantly, while many people hope they will never need to use this information, most of us want to know that we have a choice, just in case.
Book Contents
- Introduction
- Physiology of dying
- All about lethal drugs & poisons
- Lethal sedative drugs
- Lethal cardiac drugs
- US 5-Drug Mix
- Supplementary drugs
- Lethal Inorganic Salts
- Inert Gases
- Sarco
- Poisonous Gases
- VSED (voluntary stopping eating & drinking)
- Online Safety & Privacy
- When it all goes wrong?
- VAD – MAiD Laws around the World – how to qualify
- Swiss Option
- Afterword
- Reliability – Peacefulness Table
- Webinars & Snippets Recordings
Online Edition
- 24 month subscription
- Sold by Exit
- Discount for Exit Members
- For people aged 50+
- Always up to date
- Reliable, accurate, science-based information
- Access to the Peaceful Pill Forums
- Webinars & Snippets Recordings
Print Edition
- Single Print edition
- Sold by Exit
- Discount for Exit Members
- For people aged 50+
- Current at publication
- Reliable, accurate, science-based information
- Access to the Peaceful Pill Forums
- Webinars & Snippets Recordings
Amazon Edition
- Single Print Edition
- Sold by Amazon
- Discount for Exit Members
- For people aged 18+
- Current at publication
- Reliable, accurate, science-based information
- Access to the Peaceful Pill Forums
- Webinars & Snippets Recordings
About the authorS.
Philip Nitschke
Dr Philip Nitschke, PhD MBBS BSc is the founder and director of Exit International.
With his partner Fiona Stewart, he is co-author of the Peaceful Pill Handbook Essentials and the new Going to Switzerland: how to plan your final exit.
In 1996, Philip became the first doctor in the world to provide voluntary euthanasia using Australia’s Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of the Northern Territory and, as a result, four terminally ill patients used this law to end their suffering.
The Australian Parliament would go on to overturn the law by way of a conscience vote in March 1997.
Philip gained his PhD in applied physics from Flinders University in 1972. He graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1988. He retired from medicine in 1997 to work full-time on voluntary euthanasia and assisted dying.
Philip lives in the Netherlands.
Fiona Stewart
Sociologist & Lawyer Fiona Stewart, PhD MPolLaw LLB (Hons) BA, is the co-author with Philip of Going to Switzerland: how to plan your final exit and the Peaceful Pill Handbook series.
Prior to collaborating with Dr Philip Nitschke, Fiona had a career background in academia, online start-ups, the media and consulting (including to the World Health Organisation).
Fiona has published widely in the mainstream media, academic journals and edited collections.
Of her time working in newspaper journalism, she says that her opinions were always getting her into trouble and it was reassuring to find that one could make a living from being just that, ‘opinionated’.
Since that time, it is Fiona’s ability to write in a way in that engages the reader that makes Exit’s books the success that they are today.
Australian by birth, Fiona is a long-term resident of the Netherlands.
She has recently become the proud owner of two puppies: a crazy Jack Russell called Katrina and a Coton de Tulear called Lulu. A lifelong dog lover, she adores them both.
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