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TEMPLESTOWE, Australia, March 11 (UPI) -- A right-to-die advocate has been touring Australia to give senior citizens' workshops on do-it-yourself euthanasia.
Dr. Philip Nitsche required participants at a recent workshop at the Templestowe Senior Citizens Center in the suburbs of Melbourne to sign statements that they wouldn't use anything he said to "advise, counsel or assist in the act of suicide," The Age, a Melbourne newspaper, reported.
"It's effectively saying that you won't take notice of what I'm saying," Nitschke said.
Nitsche, founder of Exit International, received a letter last year from the attorney general warning that his activities might be breaking the law in most of Australia. In Victoria, he could receive up to 14 years in prison.
The do-it-yourself methods he showed included a suffocation machine and a means of cooking a lethal drug from easily obtainable substances. Both were shown through still photos with references to videos available on the Internet, The Age said.
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