Editing Philip Nitschke (section)

===Dying with dignity===
On 29 April 2009 Nitschke said: "It seems we demand humans to live with indignity, pain and anguish whereas we are kinder to our pets when their suffering becomes too much. It simply is not logical or mature. Trouble is, we have had too many centuries of religious claptrap."<ref>
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</ref> He works mainly with older people from whom he gains inspiration, saying: "You get quite inspired and uplifted by the elderly folk who see this as quite a practical approach".<ref name="choice">{{cite web |url=http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2009/07/02/his-choice-to-live-or-die/ |title=His choice to live or die |access-date=2 July 2009 |publisher=Lismore Northern Star |author=Saffron Howden |date=July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706111018/http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2009/07/02/his-choice-to-live-or-die/ |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

In July 2009 Nitschke said he no longer believed voluntary euthanasia should only be available to the terminally ill, but that elderly people afraid of getting old and incapacitated should also have a choice.<ref name="not-only-ill">{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25754012-29277,00.html |title=Give all elderly the right to die – Nitschke |access-date=8 July 2009 |publisher=News Corp. |date=8 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709160529/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25754012-29277,00.html |archive-date=9 July 2009 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Nitschke expects that a growing number of people importing their own euthanasia drugs "really don't care if the law is changed or not".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/sites/default/files/news_package/dom_euthanasia_mixdown.mp3|title=News Package Euthanasia|work=4ZZZ Brisbane FM|access-date=21 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303164252/http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/sites/default/files/news_package/dom_euthanasia_mixdown.mp3|archive-date=3 March 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>