Dr Philip Nitschke
"to break an unjust law is a moral imperative; not to break an unjust law is to collaborate with it."

Dr. Philip Nitschke is the doctor who legally helped four terminally ill people to die under the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995.
The Northern Territory government became the first in the world to legalise voluntary euthanasia in 1996. But following an outcry by church leaders, right-to-lifers and Northern Territory aborigines, the Australian government passed legislation overriding the law eight months later.

Dr. Georges Reding

Reding was born April 8, 1925 in Belguim
He graduated from a Belgium medical school in 1950
By the late 1960s, he had settled in New York, and began working in community health departments in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He was resident in Galesburg, Michigan.

Reding worked as a psychiatrist in the Kalamazoo, Hillsdale and Jackson county areas.
A New Mexico grand jury indicted Reding on August 19th ?1999 on charges of first-degree murder, practicing medicine without a license, trafficking in a controlled substance and evidence tampering.
Source: The Holland Sentinel

Reding was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly helping in the 1998 death of a 54-year-old New Mexico woman with multiple sclerosis. Reding failed to show up for arraignment in September. He reportedly fled the country, and defense attorney Michael Schwartz said he has not spoken with Reding in months and is unaware of his whereabouts.

» The wrongful-death lawsuit
» Dr. Kevorkian's associate shuns spotlight
» Liable for Euthanasia Death
» Fled to native Belgium?