Morant Sentenced to 10 Years

Aug - December 2018 COUNSELLING SUICIDE? MORANT SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS Queensland man, Graham a member of Exit, Graham Graham was found to have Morant, was seen to make Morant was depicted in the course encouraged Jenny to suicide by international legal precedent of his trial as a vindictive, money- telling her that he knew how to do when he was sentenced in early grubbing husband who forced his it and verbally agreed to help her. November to 10 years prison wife to die so that he could collect He also told her that it would not for counselling his wife Jenny her $1.4 million life insurance be a sin in God’s eyes if she did. to suicide. A further charge of policy. aiding her suicide got him a 6 Graham Morant, like Australian year jail sentence, to be served Jenny Morant died in her car Prime Minister Scott Morrison, concurrently. in 2014 from carbon monoxide is a member of the Assemblies of poisoning. She was reported in the God pentacostal church. In media The Graham Morant story is media as suffering from chronic reports it was said he wanted nothing short of a miscarriage of pain, anxiety and depression. She the money to build a religious justice. Married to Jenny Morant, was 56 years of age. commune. IN THIS ISSUE 1&11 Counselling his wife’s suicide? 2 The Story of Black Venus 3 Sean Davison Charged with Murder 4 NuTech 2018 Conference Report 5 Exitorial 6 World Federation Report 7 Letter from Ireland 8 Chapter Coordinators Meeting 9 I Beqeath the Python (2nd ed) 9 Workshop Report & 2019 Plans 10 International Media Report 11 Counselling his wife’s suicide? cont. 12 Exit Order Form Maia Calloway - photographed in Internaken ,Switzerland, December 2016

Aug - Dec 2018 Page 1 of 12 THE STORY OF BLACK VENUS

The finalPeaceful Pill eHandbook update for 2018 will feature a method of dying which has come to attention lately due to the adventures of former South Korean spy, Park Chae-seo, codename ‘Black Venus’.

In a recent interview with Agence France Presse, Black Venus was reported to say that, unlike Nth Korean spies, he was never issued with suicide pills to ensure a quick end if captured. Instead, he stated, ‘we were trained to kill ourselves with our own fingers’ using ‘some critical points in the body’. Former South Korean spy Park Chae-seo aka ‘Black Venus’

A method of dying that is peaceful and reliable and which does not involve drugs, gases or poisons? Sounds interesting right?

Black Venus is talking about the old-new ‘carotid’ method. The Black Venus interview is timely in that it ties in neatly to the presentation at the Cape Town NuTech 2018 conference by Canadian activist Ruth von Fuchs. Along with former assistant to Dr Jack Kevorkian, Neal Nicol, Ruth has long been interested in and active in testing this methodology. Ruth von Fuchs & Neal Nicol explaining the Black Venus method at This brand new chapter is bound to have particular NuTech in Toronto in October 2017 relevance for those who are living in an institutional setting such as a nursing home.

The method (which is technique dependent) may also be a consideration for those who are unable to travel to exotic locations such as Peru, or who do not want to break the law by mail ordering illegal drugs or who do not want to order obvious equipment such as a nitrogen cylinder from Max Dog Brewing.

Black Venus was discussed by Dr Philip Nitschke at the recent Exit workshops held in Australia and New Zealand. Audiences were used as ‘focus groups’ to gauge interest. The result? An option that involves no drugs, gases or poisons is certainly something worthy of further research and of publication. Black Venus will feature in the December 2018 Update to the Peaceful Pill eHandbook

Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 2 SEAN DAVISON CHARGED - MURDER

It was with dismay and deep concern that Exit learned of the pending legal action against the President of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, Professor Sean Davison. Sean has been charged with two counts of ‘premeditated murder’ (note, not assisted suicide) in Cape Town in South Africa.

The first charge involves the 2013 death of former medical doctor Anrich Burger who had become a quadriplegic after a car accident some years earlier. The second charge concerns the 2014 death of Professor Sean Davison motor nuerone disease sufferer, Justin Varian. Dr Burger died using Nembutal. Justin Varian is that time Sean was perhaps best known for assisting reported having died using an Exit bag and helium. his mother, a retired doctor, to die in New Zealand in 2010. Sean had pleaded guilty and spent five Sean was arrested at home in Cape Town and months serving home detention in 2011. had his computer, mobile phone and passports all taken by the police. Tragically, Sean’s wife and As if the two charges facing Sean Davison were three young children had all recently relocated to not bad enough, the prosecutor is reportedly not near Wollongong in Australia, in anticipation of done yet, asking the court for a further extension in the family’s permanent relocation away from the time to gather the evidence for still more charges. violence that permeates life in South Africa. The charge of murder in South Africa carries the mandatory sentence of 20+ years jail. This week, Sean has told Exit that the family has returned (since he can no longer leave the country), In an affidavit read by Sean’s lawyer to the court, he and that he hopes this will give him the emotional said his ‘greatest fear’ is the impact any incarceration support he needs to get through the ordeal. That would have on his wife, Raine Pan, and their said, Sean has said publicly that the one thing children, Flynn, 9, Finnian, 8, and Fia, 4.

Sean’s friend and fellow advocate, Archbishop ‘I fear my children would not be able to process Desmond Tutu said in a statement following Sean’s the thought of my being in prison,” he said. “The arrest: financial burden of our household falls on my shoulders.’ “I hope I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life’s journey in the Exit will report regularly on the predicament of manner of my choice... When my time comes, I Sean Davison in the coming months. Exit expect want the option of an assisted death,” to see a crowd-funding campaign established in the coming weeks by Dignity South Africa (the Exit members will remember Sean as a speaker at organisation founded by Sean) and/ or the World the organisation’s 20th Anniversary conference at Federation of Right to Die Societies of which he is the State Library of Victoria in September 2016. At President.

Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 3 NUTECH 2018 REPORT

NuTech is the premier resarch and development group in relation to the use of new technologies in end of life choices. Founded some 20 years ago by John Hofsess, Rob Neils, Philip Nitschke & Derek Humphry, NuTech meets regularly to showcase new ‘inventions, thinking, developments’ in practical DIY (do-it-yourself) end of life options.

In 2018, NuTech met in Cape Town, South Africa on the Sunday following the conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies. The conference was live-streamed around the world.

The Program

• Use of Inorganic Salts - Ned Wheeler (USA) • NuTech 2018: Using VR (virtual reality) to prepare for a peaceful death - Philip Nitschke (NL) • NuTech 2018: The Electric Fibrillator - William Sugger (Aust) • The Portable Dry CO Generator - Philip Nitschke (NL) Hugh Wynne (Scotland) experiencing Sarco in VR at • Should we Abandon Helium? - Rubin Battino NuTech 2018, Cape Town (USA) Affiliates of NuTech become part of a unique • The Rebreather Revisited - Looking at growing global community that supports exploring Improvements the relevance and role of technology in the future of • - Richard Avocet (USA) peaceful, self-directed, non-medical dying. • Fatal Faint - Examing the Carotid Method - Ruth von Fuchs (Canada) Affiliation with NuTech, is a tangible way of ensuring that control over dying is increasingly seen As a stand-alone group, in 2018 Exit International as a fundamental human right (rather than a medical (Australia) & Final Exit Network (USA) each privilege available only for the very sick). donated $1000 each to help cover the conference & streaming costs. If Exit members have an idea that needs R&D, they are invited to contact NuTech on nutech@ The videos from the live-stream are avilable online to protonmail.com affiliates of NuTech. All funds are preserved for the staging of subsequent NuTech gatherings and for the The complete set of NuTech 2018 video recordings funding of the R&D which underpins the group’s are now available for a donation of USD50 at: activities. https://www.exitinternational.net/nutech/store/product/nu- tech-2018-recordings/

Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 4 EXITORIAL

THE SARCO: FACT OR FICTION? however, he was frustrated at the pain he saw himself being forced It has been a great pleasure for me this year to collaborate with to endure because of the reluctance of doctors to give him the industrial engineer, Alex Bannink, on a project I’ve long had in drugs he needed. And then there is the ultimate irony. Jay was mind; the Sarco. While I’ve always been interested in devices that not terminally ill. Jay was never going to qualify for the new law, might assist a person to have a legal, peaceful death at a time of despite being born and bred in Melbourne. Jay fell between the their choosing, this year I’ve found myself taken well out of my cracks. Not sick enough to want to die at Dignitas and not the comfort zone as I’ve needed to investigate the possibilities of 3D right type of sick to die well at home. Long live the memory of printing. Jay Franklin, 30.12.76 - 1.11.17.

Why is this new type of manufacturing process important you might ask? Because it has the potential to provide an accessible, easy and economical way for any one of us to have control and autonomy over when and how we die. No need to break the law. No need to import hard to get drugs over the Internet. No doctor required.

As 3D printing is spreading around the world and within our local neighbourhoods, its possibilities are endless. Yes, the Sarco is a glimpse of the future, but that future is not too far off. The Sarco story is just beginning and will be a driving focus of work for me well into 2018. VICTORIOUS IN VICTORIA With Jay Franklin at the Melbourne Australia has finally brought itself into the 21st Century with Comedy Festival, 2 April 2016 Victoria passing the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act. About time too! While the Victorian law is cautious to the extent that it may be SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT 2017 unworkable, the brightest ray of light in my opinion is that it will Come the end of each year I am grateful to be alive and to have compel other Australian states to follow suit. had another year of living and working for Exit. Part of my enjoyment in directing Exit is the wonderful staff and volunteer It is beyond logic that a person in Mildura will be able to get help team I have around me and the incredible members who I meet. to die but if you live over the Murray in Wentworth, you will I know I’ve said this before but I will say it again: Exit is the result be sentenced to suffer. Is this discrimination under s177 of the of many people’s labors. Australian Constitution? I have no doubt that the legal profession is mulling this question over, just as they did in Darwin 20 years There are the Chapter Coordinators who form the grass roots ago. Only this time, there will be more time for consideration network of the organisation. And then there is the core staff of because Victoria is a state not a Territory and rabid christian Kerri, Tasha, Rachel, Sarah and Tom. There are the many people politicans like Kevin Andrews are finally powerless to act. upon whose expertise I call regularly (you know who you are). And, finally, there is Fiona whose daily support and input makes REMEMBERING JAY it all worthwhile. Jay Franklin will be remembered as a brave, outspoken and committed young man. Dealt a raw hand in life by being born With Fiona, I have settled well into the Netherlands. The politics with Hirschsprungs Disease, Jay was acutely aware of the pros are easy, the weather less so, but we hope to stay here, at least and cons of modern medicine. On the one hand, medicine was for the present. Trips home for Exit punctuate our year in a life- able to help Jay, and extend his life considerably. Increasingly affirming way. Thank you to everyone for 2017. See you in 2018! Philip Nitschke Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 5 WORLD FEDERATION CONFERENCE REPORT

Many years after Exit received our first sponsorship to join the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, so the membership finally became a reality on Cape Town in September.

The World Federation of Right to Die Societies is the global peak body for end of life choice groups. While staunchly conservatively medical in focus, it has been a group that has lasted over time, despite many (including Exit) questioning its role or purpose. While Exit has been largely ambivalent about the group over the past 20 years, it was pleasant to be finally considered a suitable candidate for organisational membership.

While 99% of member groups welcomed Exit to the World Federation, it was rather disappointing and even petty for Dying with Dignity Victoria and the South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society to be the only groups in the room who tried to block Exit’s application for right. And equally few organisations who are prepared to membership and who voted against the recommendation think that dying can be a personal, private and individual that Exit be accepted as a member. matter, that does not require a doctor.

DWDV committee member Roger Hont would later To this end, Exit will trial its membership for the coming tell Dr Fiona Stewart that he had been instructed to vote year or two. Given the Federation expects a considerable thus by his committee, as if by some way explaining the membership fee, it always remains to Exit to determine if embarassing position he momentarily found himself in this is a good use of Exit members’ funds. on the global stage. The very small South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia society has long-harbored In closing Exit would like to thank World Federation antogonism towards Philip personally, so it was hardly President Sean Davison. It was Sean who sponsored Exit’s surprising that their churlishness would have changed membership. Without him, there is little doubt that we now. The tall poppy syndrome is alive and well. would still be on the outside, pressing our noses to the glass, for better or worse. Politics aside, attendance at the Cape Town conference was worthwhile not only for the networking opportunity, Professor Davison’s conference welcome can be viewed on but because it provided the space for Philip to present his You Tube at: http://bit.ly/WorldFed2018 thoughts on why the medical model is dead. Dr Philip Nitschke’s presentation can be viewed at: In this regard the World Federation is a group that has https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Or4kuZADo long had difficulty acknowledging advocacy models beyond the medical model. There are starkly few groups Professor Sean Davison’s main presentation is at: who believe that dying well is a fundamental human https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQnpkz4BNFw

Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 6 LETTER FROM IRELAND

It is a pleasure to write an annual report for the Exit I was honoured to travel to Switzerland to be with David newsletter this year. when he was helped to die by the Life Circle - Eternal Spirit organisation in Basel. My presence at his death Until now, it could be said that what goes on with Ireland, received nation coverage in the print media, on radio and stays in Ireland. This needs to change. Especially since my TV. country’s hardwon recent advances in the area of human rights. I’m talking here about our abortion law reforms Not surprisingly, recent months have been especially busy and the legalisation of gay marriage in 2015. as a result. I have continued to fly the Exit flag keynote speaking at five of our national universities. I have At the beginning of the year I was pleased to receive an participated in debates at two others, the last of which invitation, out of the blue, to make a presentation to was just this week. Ireland’s Joint Justice Parliament Committee. I have a few more One more television appearance the The report that followed in June recommended that week after next and hopefully on to a quite Christmas the Irish Parliament (the Oireachtas) should establish with my family. A difficult time as the 20th. Of December a working group to look at implementing voluntary marks the fifth anniversary of Marie’s death. euthanasia legislation.

The Parliament was actually instructed by the Irish Supreme Court to enact such legislation back in 2013 as a result of the case that my late partner, Marie Fleming, took to our Constitutional Court.

Five years on, the report also recommended that the issue should be sent to the Citizens’ Assembly for their consideration. While good intentions abound in Ireland, I am sorry to say that neither of these things have happened.

On reflection, I am of the opinion that the right to die is firmly on the public and political agenda as a result of the advances made in regard to the two other moral issues I mentioned above: same sex marriage and abortion.

Both of these issues saw the people of Ireland vote overwhelmingly in favour of something that would never have happened in the era that I was brought up in.

A second impetus for change in Ireland is the huge publicity that resulted from the death of Professor David Goodall in Switzerland in May this year.

Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 7 INTERNATIONAL MEDIA REPORT

On 8 November, Dr Philip Nitschke was very pleased to accept an invitation to speak at the conference of European right to die groups at the European Parliament in Brussels. Speakers came from all over the EU including the Netherlands, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Poland and Switzerland. These countries harbor a variety of laws when it comes to a person’s right to die with dignity.

The day was divided into three streams for discussion:

Philip Nitschke & Fiona Stewart with Isabel Alfonso (DMD Barcelona) 1. Clandestine Death in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland; 2. Legal Euthanasia: Admitting foreigners who come to die, the risks and challenges; and 3. Fundamental Rights & Discrimination in Europe. What are citizens doing? From Cyberactivists to Militants.

Philip spoke in the third session about the potential of the new technologies to change the face of right to die activism.

The discussion varied greatly according to the country involved. Morning Plenary Session with instantaneous translation In France, for example, it remains illegal not to prevent a person from suiciding. While the Netherlands is actively debating the right of older people to take their own lives (zelfdoding), irrespective of whether they are sick or not.

With a program that had something for everyone, it was especially interesting to hear first hand of the intensely conservative political environment in a country such as Poland. Particularly, the degree of difficulty associated with any advancement of a person’s human rights at the end of life. Philip before speaking in the afternoon plenary session In the alternative were the delegation from Antwerp who were keen that the activists from Lisbon learn from the mistakes Exit would like to thank DMD (Derecho a Morir Dignamente) of the past, rather than risk repeating them in their efforts to Spain (& Catalonia) for their kind invitation. The invitation draft their country’s first right to die law. For example, what came at the height of the Catalan crisis so it was welcoming to should be the role of the medical profession in the end of life see Spanish and Catalan DMD colleagues working side by side choices debate? On this point the Portuguese were honest to advance the right to die issue. in acknowledging the fact that they had not considered the decriminalisation of Nembutal in the same way that their The DMD were themselves sponsored by MEPs from the country has decriminalised the possession of small amounts of progressive Podemos Party. drugs such as heroin and cocaine for personal use.

Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 8 EXIT CHAPTERS ANNUAL PLANNING MTG

Every year Exit brings together its 20-odd volunteers from Australia and New Zealand to network, exchange ideas and to re-energize for the year ahead. Every time the Coordinators meet, Exit is reminded how important this opportunity is for them all. Local chapters are the lifeblood of Exit. Without the dedicated band of volunteers who coordinate such groups, Exit would be very much the poorer. Group planning meeting For this reason, Exit was pleased to have all coordinators attend a two-day planning meeting in Adelaide. Even Suzy Austen (who, since her trial in February in Wellington, has a criminal conviction) was able to travel to Adelaide to be part of the group.

The time was spent describing how each chapter runs, exchanging tips and giving suggestions. This was particularly important since the Melbourne chapter has new coordinators in the form of Chris Lovelock and Cath Ringwood. Exit Fun at the Official Dinner also welcomed May Geaney who has taken over from Marge Lawrence in Townsville in FNQ.

Understandably, an important feature of the annual meetings is the dinner that Exit holds in honour of the coordinators. At this year’s dinner Exit presented a number of awards as small tokens of appreciation for the work done for the organisation. In this regard both Rachel Crossland (reception & administration) and Fiona Stewart were honoured with awards thanking them for their contribution.

Wellington Chapter Coordinator Suzy Austen was also honoured with an Exit Leadership Award recognising the way Fern, Kay & Cath experimenting with VR & Sarco in which Suzy represented the organistion in the lead up to and during her trial for the assisted suicide of Annemarie Treadwell (and the importation of Nembutal) held in Wellington’s High Court in February earlier this year.

The next planning meeting is due to be held in late 2019/ early 2020, most likely in Queensland. Huge thank you to Kerri Dennis and Rachel Crossland for organising such a thoughtful and efficient 2 days of work and play.

Annual group photo of Exit’sVolunteer Coordinators

Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 9 I BEQUEATH THE PYTHON GUIDE Exit is very pleased to announce the 2nd edition of I Bequeath the Python is now available.

First published in 2007, I Bequeath the Python is the brainchild of Gold Coast Chapter Coordinator, Elaine Arch-Rowe. The illustrations in the new edition come courtesy of Elaine’s daughter Tonja McNamee. Great work!

‘The Python’ as this booklet has come to be known is a useful summary of all the other things that need to be considered when one is planning for one’s Exit. For example, where do you find your will. Who knows the passwords to your email accounts or Facebook account. Where is your funeral plan, your advance directive and so on.

It is easy to see why on Exit’s recent workshop tour, The Python is available on the back page order form I Bequeath the Python sold out at each meeting. It of the newsletter or from the Exit store at the Exit is a brilliant way to let others know your wishes and Website (https://www.exitinternational.net) intentions when you are gone.

On 1 November, Exit was very sad to hear that our former Social Media Manager Jay Franklin had died. Jay, who was born with Hirschsprungs Disease, was involved with Exit for many years. In 2013, Exit helped Jay raise funds to travel to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, only to have Jay later return the money as he was not ready to die.

Jay told his story in the media many times over the years but at no time more poignantly than on the ABC’s 4 Corners program. Everyone at Exit sends their thoughts to Jay’s mum, Bertha. 4 Corners can be viewed at: Jay & Bertha Franklin at the Old Melbourne Gaol 22 September 2016 http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/my-own-choice/4962448

Aug - Dec 2018 - Page 10 COUNSELLING SUICIDE?

While the Prosecutor Michael Lehane called for a sentence of 10-14 years for Graham Morant, with no possibility of early release, the defence counsel suggested a more modest 8 years.

The length of these sentences is a far cry from the 3 year (6-month non-parol) period handed down to Merin Nielson in the Queensland Supreme Court. In 2012, Nielson was found to have assisted with the suicide of Exit member, Frank Ward by sourcing Nembutal for him in Mexico. Justice Peter Davis 4 months I have had such severe nausea i could not eat at all, In sentencing Morant, Justice Peter Davis stated ‘Mrs & also with the large amounts of Oxycontin I have to take the Morant was a vulnerable person with difficulties with her side effects are terrible. I am 56 years old and I have no quality physical health. She was suffering depression.’ of life ...

Addressing Graham Morant he lectured, ‘[y]ou took At the time, Jenny was advised to buy the Peaceful Pill advantage of those vulnerabilities in order to persuade her eHandbook which she duly did. However, her incapacity to kill herself and then assisted her to do so once she had meant that much of the information in the book was made that decision.’ already out of her reach.

On these facts, it could be said that Graham Morant In September 2014 she wrote to Exit: sounds like a crazy, hypocritical Christian with a set agenda to see his wife kill herself. However, according to In desperation the other night I crushed every tablet I had Exit’s database records nothing could not be further from and drank it down with some alcohol, I followed all your the truth. instructions, taking Maxolon & Stemetil, but I just woke up 20 hours later feeling sick and vomitting ... Please help Jenny Morant first made contact with Exit in May 2014 me, I have discussed with my Husband but he is too upset writing: to help me, so I am all alone with my pain & I have no one to help me except you, as I live in a rural community I desperately need your help, to assist me to end my life in a & find it hard to drive off the mountain where we live, peaceful manner. I am in chronic pain for the past 3 years and my husband won’t take me to your workshops, so I now, with Spinal Surgery not giving me any relief, in August could talk to you. Please I beg you help me. 2011, I fractured my spine from Osteo Perosis, and I had 3 rods, 2 plates and cement injected into my spine, but the When Jenny’s side of the story is considered, Graham operation was not a success and now I am having to take large Morant looks more uncooperative, than encouraging, amounts on a daily basis of Oxycontin, Endone, Tramadal, when it comes to his wife’s suicide. Stemetil, Maxolon, Panadol Osteo, but most days I do not get out of bed because the pain and the nausea is so bad, if I can Exit has since passed Jenny Morant’s database record to manage to get up, I am back in bed by 4PM, propped up the Morant family. Exit expects the information to form with Pillows,so i can eat a little amount of food, but the past the basis of an appeal (to the conviction & sentence) in 2019.

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