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Nitschke "Assists" in Death of Non-Terminal Patient.(Australian case involving Dr. Philip Nitschke)(Brief Article)
Claiming that Nancy Crick had terminal cancer, Australia's "Dr. Death," Philip Nitschke, "helped" the 69-year-old woman kill herself May 22. However, Nitschke soon admitted that Crick's medical condition was not terminal, forcing euthanasia proponents to justify Nitschke's actions before a largely critical Australian public.
Euthanasia is illegal in Australia, and local police are investigating Crick's death, The Australian reported. The Queensland Medical Board told the Courier Mail that it would not consider looking into Nitschke's actions until the official coroner's report is released. Nitschke is licensed as a general practitioner in Queensland, according to the Courier Mail.
Since February, Crick maintained a web site on which she posted a diary justifying her death. She specifically stated that she had bowel cancer, that the pain control she was receiving was helping a little but she was still suffering, and that she wanted to die. She set several different dates for her death, postponing it again and again.
On May 22, however, with 21 witnesses and Nitschke looking on, she took an overdose of barbiturates washed down with liquor, according to the Herald Sun. After her death, reports began to surface that her medical condition was not as dire as the public had been led to believe.
According to the Herald Sun, a government pathologist reported he could find no visual trace of cancer, but did discover that Crick had suffered from a twisted bowel. Nitschke told The Age that he was present when doctors told Crick two months before her death that her bowel cancer had been removed. When Crick asked why she was still in pain, the doctors said that another operation might be able to help, but Crick refused to have the surgery.
Nitschke said that it was "irrelevant" whether or not her medical condition was terminal, the Herald Sun reported. He added that his only regret about Crick's death was that he should have been more honest about her condition before she died. "Now I think we should have perhaps stressed it more ... if I was ...
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