EUTHANASIA advocate, Dr Philip Nitschke, who will hold a workshop in Dublin this week said there was already enough Irish interest in his DIY death techniques to make his visit worthwhile.

A Polish priest from John Paul II’s birthplace said today he had been told by The Pope’s closest aide that the pontiff might leave hospital on Monday or Tuesday.

A euthanasia campaigner today demonstrated for the first time a prototype do-it-yourself suicide machine designed to kill with a few breaths of carbon monoxide.

PLASTIC bags designed to help terminally ill people commit suicide were launched in Australia by a doctor yesterday.

Plastic bags designed to help terminally ill people commit suicide were launched in Australia by a doctor today.

AN Australian pro-euthanasia group said yesterday that it would begin making free plastic bags to help its members commit suicide.

An Australian pro-euthanasia group says it willl begin making plastic bags to help its members commit suicide.

A 70-year-old Australian grandmother is calling for the law to be changed so she can have a dignified death with her friends and family by her side.

A terminally ill woman is to chart her suicide on the internet. ‘‘I’ve lost almost all of my teeth, energy and, most importantly, the will and desire to live,’’ said Australian great-grandmother Nancy Crick, 70.

Australia's leading euthanasia campaigner says he may set up a floating clinic if mercy killing is legalised next week in the Netherlands.