Philip Nitschke Announces Conference on ‘Rational Suicide’ in Melbourne

December 14, 2015

(The Guardian) – Voluntary euthanasia advocate and former medical doctor Philip Nitschke plans to hold Australia’s first conference on rational suicide – the idea that people do not have to be terminally ill or depressed to want to die – at Victoria’s State Library in Melbourne next year. Philosophers and sociologists will be invited among those asked to attend, but members of Australia’s medical profession will not be invited to speak, Nitschke has told Guardian Australia.