A specialist who has worked with geriatric patients for two decades, has said he has never seen any doctor perform euthanasia. On Tuesday night’s Close Up programme Dr John Pollock, who is terminally ill, claimed many doctors are already practising euthanasia. "It’s called pain control or anxiety control, but the reality is many of the [...]

One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have “a duty to die,” rather than become a burden to others. This is more than just an idea discussed around a seminar table. Already the government-run medical system in Britain is restricting what medications or [...]

Cathy Ludlum of Manchester, Connecticut, has a neuromuscular condition called spinal muscular atrophy and has been in a wheelchair since she was a child. She and other advocates for people with disabilities are fighting against an effort to allow doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives. Cathy Ludlum says she has a great [...]

Margaret Page has resolved to kill herself. She is starving herself to death, has not taken food for twelve days and has taken only a small amount of water. She is enduring a long and painful death. She is 60 years of age, suffered a cerebral haemorrhage 20 years ago and has been living for [...]

Dear Sir Re: Dr Philip Nitschke [Dr Death] – Booking Ferndale House. Right to Life is a national pro – life organisation that has members in Auckland. Our Society supports the right to life of every person from conception to natural death. It is disappointing that your management allowed the notorious Dr Nitschke [Dr Death] [...]

It is disappointing that Melrose House has allowed the notorious Dr Nitschke [Dr Death] to use their facilities to conduct a public workshop promoting suicide. It was the intention of Dr Nitschke to launch a controversial drug testing kit for the lethal barbiturate drug Nembutal. This drug is a Class C prohibited drug. It is [...]

The Secretary, Film & Literature Board of Review, PO Box 805, Wellington. Dear Mr Davie Re; Film & Literature Board Of Review: “Do It Yourself With Betty” The following submission is presented in support of our Society’s request for a review of the classification of unrestricted for the video, Do It Yourself With Betty. It [...]

  Eluana Englaro, the 38 year old Italian woman died on the 9th of February after she had been denied food and hydration for three days. She did not die from natural causes but was deliberately killed through dehydration and starvation following a court order obtained by her father, this was cold blooded murder. Eluana [...]

Right to Life welcomes the decision of the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings of the Office of Film & Literature Classification to classify the Dr Nitschke’s suicide video Objectionable. The decision was made on 24 November 2008. The decision followed a written complaint against the video by Right to Life New Zealand made on 26 June [...]

First it was going to be only those who were dying and wanted to who would be euthanased. The Right to die they said, was a human right Next it was those who were dying, did not want to but were anyway. Now one of Britain’s "leading" "moral" philosophers is saying that the demented have [...]

Right to Life is appalled that the Classification Review Board has upheld the classification of “The Peaceful Pill Handbook [Revised New Zealand Edition] On the 8 May the Office of Film and Literature [OFLC], classified the book as R18. Right to Life appealed this decision to the Classification Review Board.

Submission (Amended & Final Version) From Right to Life New Zealand Inc. Re: Classification of The Peaceful Pill Handbook (New Revised International Version) by Dr Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart Right to Life on 12 May 2008 sought leave to apply for a review of the classification of the controversial suicide handbook, The Peaceful Pill [...]

12 May 2008 Mr Brendan Boyle, The Secretary of Internal Affairs, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington. Dear Mr Boyle Re “The Peaceful Pill” Classification Right to Life New Zealand Inc seeks leave in terms of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993, section 47[2][e], to apply to the Film and Literature Board of Review [...]

Dr Philip Nitschke should accept some responsibility for the tragic suicide of a Wellington woman. She was not terminally ill. Dr Nitschke encouraged the deeply depressed woman to travel to Mexico to purchase the deadly drug Nembutal. Nembutal is a class C prohibited drug. A person possessing this drug unlawfully could be charged and on [...]

Lets be very clear when the next major push comes from those who wish to promote Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide in New Zealand. Lets learn from the experience of others when we hear of emotive reasons behind the "need" for the killing of those who are dying. This debate as we know is characterised [...]