Damned If I Do

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 237 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This is the revealing, personal story of the man behind the controversial pro-euthanasia movement, told in his own words. Medical doctor, humanist, author and founder/director of Exit International, Philip Nitschkes life has always been in the spotlight. The books spans Philips early days, from his curious, activist student days in Adelaide, to working with Aboriginal land rights groups in Australias Far North; to his successful campaign to have euthanasia legalised in Australia and his assistance in four people ending their lives before the law was overturned. It covers the controversy surrounding Philips work, including the banning in Australia of his international bestselling book The Peaceful Pill, and disturbing reports that many young people overdosed on Nembutal, the drug that Exit International recommends for suicide.Ultimately, Philip believes that the right to ones own death is as fundamental as the right to control ones own life: ‘It seems we demand humans to live with indignity, pain and anguish whereas we are kinder to our pets when their suffering becomes too much.

ISBN: 9780522861419