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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 final Peaceful 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.
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