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| | Suicide pill presented at right-to-die meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The pill was devised by a group of 20 Australians with degenerative and terminal illnesses. |
 | | Group members, aged from 55 to 94, have taught themselves the chemistry to make a lethal barbiturate whose main component is amylobarbitone, said Dr. Philip Nitschke, executive director of Australia's national dying with dignity organization, Exit International. |
 | | However, the country's Suicide Material Offences Act prohibits anyone from giving how-to advice on suicide via fax, telephone or e-mail, which led to Exit splitting itself into two organizations and moving its website out of Australia to New Zealand. |
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