{"id":279600,"date":"2022-11-14T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=279600"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:18:38","slug":"exit-international-assisted-suicide-depressed-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/exit-international-assisted-suicide-depressed-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit International champions assisted suicide of healthy yet depressed novelist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An award-winning Australian novelist has committed suicide using the services of Exit International, a pro-death organization pioneered by Philip Nitschke, who has earned himself the\u00a0nickname<\/a>\u00a0“Dr. Death.”<\/p>\n

Writer Annah Faulkner wasn’t dying or even ill when she committed the procedure \u2014 instead, she was depressed over the death of her husband, Alec.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful for friends and for the life I\u2019ve had,\u2019\u2019 she wrote in a suicide note published by Exit International<\/a>. \u201cBut whatever meaning I derived from that life, including past work, interests, and hobbies, disappeared with Alec.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal in Tasmania, where Faulkner lived, through what is known as voluntary assisted dying (VAD). However, as an article detailing Faulkner’s death in The Australian<\/a> notes, Exit International’s work in the country exists in defiance of many of the safeguards lawmakers put in place. While most VAD laws require a person to have a terminal illness and work in conjunction with a physician, Nitschke and his organization have become notorious for the idea that anyone<\/em> should be allowed to die should they so choose \u2014 no questions asked.<\/p>\n