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Fight continues to ban euthanasia book

June 26, 2008 by SPCS 1 Comment

 

By JENNY LING – The Dominion Post Thursday, 26 June 2008

Pro-life groups trying to stop a euthanasia book from going on sale are vowing to fight on despite their latest efforts being rejected.

The Film and Literature Review Board declined last week requests by Right to Life and The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards for interim restriction orders on Australian euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke’s Peaceful Pill Handbook.

The order would have stopped distribution to New Zealand shops till a review of chief censor Bill Hastings’ decision to allow its sale was heard.

Both groups are seeking a review of the decision in which Mr Hastings allowed the sale of the book to over-18s. A hearing is set down for August 25.

David Lane, executive director of The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, said the group would apply for another restriction order.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4597011a11.

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Filed Under: Pro-life Tagged With: Suicides

Gay, Giggly, Liberal Reverend who Promotes A Culture of Death (Assisted Suicide): Seeks Martyrdom

May 21, 2008 by SPCS 2 Comments

‘I make it look like they died in their sleep’

Jon Ronson The Guardian Monday 12 2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/12/mentalhealth.health

Summary

Irish police are seeking the arrest and extradition of the Reverend George Exoo,  “a giggly, gay liberal unitarian preacher, cultured funny, [and]charming.” who is “a leading figure in the right-to-die movement.” Like fellow right-to-die propagandist Dr Philip Nitschke, whose book The Peaceful [Suicide] Pill Handbook was recently classified and cleared by NZ’s gay Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, for sale in NZ bookshops, Exoo has helped over 100 people commit suicide. But, reports Jon Ronson, “most of his [Exoo’s] clients were not terminally ill, just depressed and in need of psychiatric help.”

“I’m a midwife to the dying, for those who want to hasten their deaths,” claims Rev Exoo. He has announced publicly that he intends to commit suicide (see video link above) and so become the first martyr for the right-to-die movement, so that he and his nomosexual partner THomas McGurrin, can avoid extraditon from the US as suspects, in the assisted suicide of Rosemary Toole, who had been suffering depression, prior to seeking help from Rev Exoo. Under Irish law, a person convicted of the crime of assisting a suicide, faces a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.

According to reports, Rev Exoo’s devoted followers showed no emotion when he publicly announced his intention to commit suicide (see video). Instead, they were utterly obsessed by a morbid fascination in the method he planned to use to take his own life, quizzing him on this matter. This cold, callous and clinical approach of right-to-death zealots, permeates Dr Nitschke’s pernicious book that documents in excruciating and meticulous detail, many options for committing suicide and assisting others to commit the act.

Chief Censor, Bill Hastings and his deputy, Nicola McCully, a lesbian, who hold the only two statutory positions in the Office of Film and Literature, have seen fit to allow this book that incites criminal activity and promotes a culture of death, into bookshops, for sale, throughout NZ.  Dr Nitchke told the media he was “thrilled” that Mr Hastings had cleared his book for sale in NZ.  

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Filed Under: Human Dignity, Moral Values Tagged With: culture of death, euthanasia, promotion of crime, Suicides

POLICE PROBE SUICIDE TOUR

May 18, 2008 by SPCS Leave a Comment

by Sean Scanlon and Deidre Mussen

Sunday Star Times 18 May 2008

Two investigations have started into claims an American woman [calling herself Cassandra Mae and Susan Wilson] helped a non-terminally ill Aucklander die in return for $12,000…

She allegedly flew here last August and assisted a woman in her 50s, suffering depression, to commit suicide. Police confirmed they and the coroner are investigating serious allegations it is illegal to aid a suicide in New Zealand.

Sources say the Auckland woman withdrew $12,000 from her bank account, money which remains unaccounted for, in the days before her death.

The American woman’s actions will also be scrutinised in a euthanasia documentary to be televised in England this week, and her behaviour and that of an American reverend she worked with were exposed in English newspaper The Guardian last week…..

Australian euthanasia campaigner and head of Exit International, Philip Nitschke, said … he believed Mae planned to bring Nembutal into New Zealand from Mexico [and] the Auckland woman [seeking to commit suicide] may have spoken to an Exit co-ordinator before her death, but he could not be sure.

It is not the first time a depressed but not terminally ill New Zealander has suicided. In March 2006, a Wellington woman killed herself with lethal drugs she smuggled home from Mexico after seeking advice from Nitschke.

For more see:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4552548a10.html

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Dr Philip Nitschke and SPCS Executive Director interviewed on Australian Current Affairs Programme – PM

May 17, 2008 by SPCS Leave a Comment

Controversy in NZ over Australian euthanasia book [Full Interview Transcript & Audio Link]

PM – Tuesday, 13 May , 2008  18:46:00
Reporter: Kerri Ritchie

BRENDAN TREMBATH: In New Zealand, right to life groups are outraged at a decision allowing a pro-euthanasia book co-written by Philip Nitschke to be sold in the country.
The Peaceful Pill Handbook was banned in Australia last year, but an edited version has been cleared for sale to New Zealanders over the age of 18.
While opponents are demanding the decision be reviewed, Philip Nitschke is now vowing to make another attempt to get his book into Australian shops.
New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie reports.
KERRI RITCHIE: There in black and white, The Peaceful Pill Handbook outlines ways people can commit suicide.
Philip Nitschke hopes his book will be in New Zealand shops within a fortnight.

You can also listen to the story in REAL AUDIO and WINDOWS MEDIA and MP3 formats.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2243906.htm [Read more…]

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