Euthanasia Advocate Philip Nitschke Criticised Over Support for 45-Year-Old Who Committed Suicide

July 4, 2014

(ABC.net) – Australia’s leading euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke is under fire for communicating with a suicidal man, despite knowing he was not terminally ill or elderly. Perth man Nigel Brayley, 45, died in May this year after taking the euthanasia drug Nembutal, which he illegally imported. In emails obtained by the ABC, Mr Brayley admitted to Dr Nitschke he was not “supporting a terminal medical illness”, but said he was “suffering”.