NZ: BAN LIFTED ON SUICIDE-BOOK

So, the ban has been lifted on the Peaceful Pill Handbook by the doctor with the coolest nickname ever, Philip Nitschke, also known as Dr. DEATH(!).

This book breaks down how to kill yourself in a easy, clean, and efficient way. They're even putting out little instruction videos on YouTube, like this one, on how to make a so-called exit bag - a bag that makes it easier to breathe in pure helium gas. And then you die.

Here in NZ the book will carry an 18+ rating and will be sealed so that suicidal folks can't go into the book shop and do some browsing and then go kill themselves.

The so-called pro-life group (who the fuck isn't pro-life, really?) called Right to Life says that the book incites people to commit suicide, that it's telling depressed and mentally unstable people how to end it all. As if people don't know this already? It's not very hard.

For some reason we started talking about autocides yesterday - to jump out in front of a moving car to kill yourself. There was a doctor at the table who said "God, to kill yourself is so damn easy. Even slashing your wrists doesn't hurt."

As far as I know it's pretty rare to put such a hard core rating on a book. I also think it is pretty retarded to believe that a book can incite people to kill themselves. If you really want to do it there are plenty of ways.