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Friday January 10, 2003
AUSTRALIA SUICIDE-HOMICIDE BAGS SEIZED BY CUSTOMS
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BRISBANE, January 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Australian customs officials at Sydney airport seized a number of death kits, the suicide-homicide bags with drawstrings to tighten around the neck, from Dr. Philip Nitschke, founder of the assisted suicide group Exit and Australia's answer to Dr. Kevorkian.
Nitschke was on his way to the U.S. launching of the death kits, which he told reporters cost him $12,000 to develop, at a San Diego conference on Sunday, January 12. "I'm very angry about it," Nitschke told reporters. "How do they implement a piece of legislation... where every plastic bag could be considered to be an item to be confiscated? It's unworkable." He was not asked to explain how simple "plastic bags" (as he calls them) would have cost $12,000 to develop.
For newswire coverage (usually valid only for one day) http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2003/01/10/9982-ap.html
For related LifeSite coverage see: NEW ZEALAND POLICE SAY SUICIDE BAG IS 'NOT AGAINST THE LAW' http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/aug/02080803.html
AUSTRALIAN RIGHT-TO-DIE GROUP TO MARKET DEATH BAGS
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/jul/02070903.html
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