Philip Nitschke

Dr Philip Nitschke MD PhD came to prominence in 1996 when he became the first doctor to administer a legal, lethal, voluntary injection to four terminally ill patients under Australia's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.

During the time of this legislation, his patients used the Deliverance Machine to enact their own deaths. This machine is now on permanent display at the British Science Museum in London.

An Australian by birth, Philip lives in Amsterdam where he is the Founder and Director of the non-profit organisation, Exit International.

Exit International holds practical information workshops around the world as well as quarterly livestreams out of Amsterdam.

Philip holds a PhD is applied physics from Flinders University in Adelaide & is a graduate of Sydney Medical School. Dr Nitschke is the recipient of many awards for his humanitarian work & is an eight-time nominee for Australian of the Year.

Philip is the author of three other books, the online Peaceful Pill eHandbook, Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill (Penguin, 2005) & his autobiography Damned If I Do (with Peter Corris) which was published by Melbourne University Press in 2013.

The Peaceful Pill Handbook online version - the eHandbook - available only from Exit contains over 50 pieces of video.

His most recent euthanasia invention, the 3D-printed Sarco capsule is expected to be used in Switzerland in 2020. More information is at Sarco.design and Exitinternational.net