Nitschke is equally frank in reply. He sees no need to intervene or sugarcoat his approach. We don't have the authority to go and seize the tablets. I'm not the police. There's no crime committed.
People have every right to take tablets and end their life.
It is a legal act - suicide. Right to Life's Tighe, a retired pharmacist, takes a very different view of such situations. The death of Norma Hall, she says, was a tragedy. She should have tried the treatment that was offered to her and she might have been agreeably surprised - she might have had some months of remission. It was very sad to see that woman's death used on TV to promote the cause of the euthanasia lobby.