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‘First’ Australian death clinic

A South Australian euthanasia clinic has been set up to test drugs and distribute nitrogen kits to terminally ill patients.

A South Australian euthanasia clinic has been set up to test drugs and distribute nitrogen kits to terminally ill patients.

According to AAP, the clinic is expected to start taking patients by the end of the week.

Voluntary euthanasia campaigner and Exit International director, Dr Philip Nitschke, known worldwide as ‘Dr Death’, claimed none of the services offered by the clinic would be illegal.

Adelaide was chosen as the site for Australia’s ‘first’ euthanasia clinic and research laboratory because legislation attempting to legalise voluntary euthanasia in South Australia was before Parliament.

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