Dr Nitschke, the director of pro-euthanasia group Exit International, said the deaths were in a “murky” area between suicide and euthanasia. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Police are investigating the deaths of two Melbourne housemates who used suicide equipment provided by euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke.
Viewbank housemates Val Seeger, 75 and Claire Parsons, 66, died in March in a suicide pact.
Ms Parsons, who was healthy, had agreed to help carry out her friend’s wish to die after she began showing early signs of dementia, Dr Nitschke said.
Laws prohibiting assisting a suicide, and the thought of living on without her best friend, had spurred Ms Parson’s decision to also die, he said.