Philip Nitschke
@philipnitschke.bsky.social
Exit International Rights Activist, End of life Tech development, Peaceful Pill eHandbook author, Sarco Project, 🇳🇱
Hypoxia, the Exit assisted suicide test dummy, gets ready to trial her new Kairos Kollar.. www.wionews.com/trending/sar...
December 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Hypoxia, the Exit assisted suicide test dummy, gets ready to trial her new Kairos Kollar.. www.wionews.com/trending/sar...
Bending science to suit politics! “Prisoners are restrained, unable to expand their chest fully against straps that restrict breathing” Incorrect, and I’ve actually been on the Holman execution gurney - Silent but not serene: what science says theconversation.com/silent-but-n... via @ConversationUK
Silent but not serene: what science says about nitrogen death
Despite claims of being humane and painless, the use of nitrogen gas for executions and assisted suicide causes air hunger, panic and violent physiological distress.
theconversation.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Bending science to suit politics! “Prisoners are restrained, unable to expand their chest fully against straps that restrict breathing” Incorrect, and I’ve actually been on the Holman execution gurney - Silent but not serene: what science says theconversation.com/silent-but-n... via @ConversationUK
The Mexican premiere of "Dulce muerte" by Analeine Cal y Mayor about Dr @philipnitschke and the right to a #MuerteDigna .. see why 80yr old Kathy from Eastbourne, UK travels to Tijuana, Mexico to get precious, lethal Nembutal ..
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Mexican premiere of "Dulce muerte" by Analeine Cal y Mayor about Dr @philipnitschke and the right to a #MuerteDigna .. see why 80yr old Kathy from Eastbourne, UK travels to Tijuana, Mexico to get precious, lethal Nembutal ..
October 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"to be serene at the end, provided the elderly have this @PeacefulPill at home so they can die when they want, rather than waiting for the medical permission” Claude Hury/ Ultime Liberte is correct! Activists on trial as France debates right to die www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @@YahooNews
September 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"to be serene at the end, provided the elderly have this @PeacefulPill at home so they can die when they want, rather than waiting for the medical permission” Claude Hury/ Ultime Liberte is correct! Activists on trial as France debates right to die www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @@YahooNews
The "Sarco" suicide capsule has reignited the Swiss euthanasia debate. Critics are calling for stricter regulations, while organizations like Exit and Dignitas are warning of "clerical and patronizing circles" exploiting the Sarco case for their own agenda.
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September 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The "Sarco" suicide capsule has reignited the Swiss euthanasia debate. Critics are calling for stricter regulations, while organizations like Exit and Dignitas are warning of "clerical and patronizing circles" exploiting the Sarco case for their own agenda.
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..despite suggesting that Ozzy “died in Switzerland with a suicide pod” this is untrue..the Swiss prosecutor still can’t decide whether or not Sarco use is illegal!
Ozzy Osbourne's assisted 'suicide pact' with Sharon resurfaces..
Ozzy Osbourne's assisted 'suicide pact' with Sharon resurfaces..
July 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
..despite suggesting that Ozzy “died in Switzerland with a suicide pod” this is untrue..the Swiss prosecutor still can’t decide whether or not Sarco use is illegal!
Ozzy Osbourne's assisted 'suicide pact' with Sharon resurfaces..
Ozzy Osbourne's assisted 'suicide pact' with Sharon resurfaces..
Couple in the new 3D printed ‘Double Dutch’ Sarco prepare to leave together..
July 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Couple in the new 3D printed ‘Double Dutch’ Sarco prepare to leave together..
..back in 2008 for reliable end of life drugs we would direct people to Mexican pet stores www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa...
July 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
..back in 2008 for reliable end of life drugs we would direct people to Mexican pet stores www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa...
..increasingly those seeking death want “a doctor to do it to them”..ie share in and reinforce their decision, put a needle into a vein and become their executioner. NO! it’s YOUR decision, YOU do it.. nvve.maglr.com/injectie-geeft…
July 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
..increasingly those seeking death want “a doctor to do it to them”..ie share in and reinforce their decision, put a needle into a vein and become their executioner. NO! it’s YOUR decision, YOU do it.. nvve.maglr.com/injectie-geeft…
The assisted suicide debate in Switzerland is gaining momentum again following the use of a suicide capsule nau.ch/politik/bundes…
June 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The assisted suicide debate in Switzerland is gaining momentum again following the use of a suicide capsule nau.ch/politik/bundes…
..some truth (finally) emerges about the first Swiss Sarco death in Schaffhausen forest..
www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...
www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...
June 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
..some truth (finally) emerges about the first Swiss Sarco death in Schaffhausen forest..
www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...
www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonnt...
Sarco Project pioneer damaged by lengthy Swiss ‘pre-trial detention’ and fake allegations of homicide @nytimes …nytimes.com/2025/06/05/wor…
June 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Sarco Project pioneer damaged by lengthy Swiss ‘pre-trial detention’ and fake allegations of homicide @nytimes …nytimes.com/2025/06/05/wor…
.. loosing mental capacity? The dementia switch allow you to take responsibility.. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Inventor behind suicide Sarco pod reveals plans for dementia switch
Dr Philip Nitschke, whose controversial capsule ended an American woman's life in Switzerland last year, told MailOnline that his newest device is nearing the testing phase.
www.dailymail.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
.. loosing mental capacity? The dementia switch allow you to take responsibility.. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
..the world’s biggest technology museum wants to display Sarco to illustrate the future of death and dying… but is blocked by a Swiss prosecutor ….Suizidkapsel Sarco soll in Nürnberg ausgestellt werden – doch die Schaffhauser Staatsanwaltschaft blockt ab shn.ch/region/kanton/…
May 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
..the world’s biggest technology museum wants to display Sarco to illustrate the future of death and dying… but is blocked by a Swiss prosecutor ….Suizidkapsel Sarco soll in Nürnberg ausgestellt werden – doch die Schaffhauser Staatsanwaltschaft blockt ab shn.ch/region/kanton/…
I’m old and in constant pain, so why can’t I end my life?
..Aust assisted suicide ‘beg and grovel’ laws (unlike Swiss laws) do not give you the ‘right to die’, only the right to beg for help..which, as in Betsy’s case, is often rejected! heraldsun.com.au/health/wellbei…
..Aust assisted suicide ‘beg and grovel’ laws (unlike Swiss laws) do not give you the ‘right to die’, only the right to beg for help..which, as in Betsy’s case, is often rejected! heraldsun.com.au/health/wellbei…
May 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I’m old and in constant pain, so why can’t I end my life?
..Aust assisted suicide ‘beg and grovel’ laws (unlike Swiss laws) do not give you the ‘right to die’, only the right to beg for help..which, as in Betsy’s case, is often rejected! heraldsun.com.au/health/wellbei…
..Aust assisted suicide ‘beg and grovel’ laws (unlike Swiss laws) do not give you the ‘right to die’, only the right to beg for help..which, as in Betsy’s case, is often rejected! heraldsun.com.au/health/wellbei…
Ingrid Hieronymi from The Last Resort, a new free Swiss assisted suicide service, describes the important role of the drug-free Sarco and the protracted investigation into the legality of the device by Swiss prosecutors, to a full meeting of the Swiss FreeThinkers
May 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Ingrid Hieronymi from The Last Resort, a new free Swiss assisted suicide service, describes the important role of the drug-free Sarco and the protracted investigation into the legality of the device by Swiss prosecutors, to a full meeting of the Swiss FreeThinkers
“Labeling this a medical practice confers a kind of legitimacy on what is also called, more accurately, physician-assisted suicide”.. and this is the point .. assisted death is not a “medical practice” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...
Opinion | There Are Ways to Die With Dignity, but Not Like This
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Labeling this a medical practice confers a kind of legitimacy on what is also called, more accurately, physician-assisted suicide”.. and this is the point .. assisted death is not a “medical practice” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...
Reposted by Philip Nitschke
For our new magazine, I profiled Philip Nitschke - aka “Dr Death” - who facilitated the first ever assisted suicides in the 1990s and has spent the rest of his life inventing new ways to die www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
For our new magazine, I profiled Philip Nitschke - aka “Dr Death” - who facilitated the first ever assisted suicides in the 1990s and has spent the rest of his life inventing new ways to die www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...
..and what ‘reason’ would ever have satisfied her father? She was a rational adult, making an informed and consistent decision …sufficient surely? Father battles Canada’s suicide machine @UnHerd unherd.com/us/2025/05/a...
A father battles Canada’s suicide machine
unherd.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
..and what ‘reason’ would ever have satisfied her father? She was a rational adult, making an informed and consistent decision …sufficient surely? Father battles Canada’s suicide machine @UnHerd unherd.com/us/2025/05/a...
Great to be in Amsterdam last night for the launch of Martje van der Brug’s book “The Autonomous Route”..can’t imagine anywhere else in the world where discussion of this topic is so welcome.. martje.nl
Now we need the English edition!
Now we need the English edition!
April 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Great to be in Amsterdam last night for the launch of Martje van der Brug’s book “The Autonomous Route”..can’t imagine anywhere else in the world where discussion of this topic is so welcome.. martje.nl
Now we need the English edition!
Now we need the English edition!