Dr Nitschke's associates are studying the substance in the laboratory to see how it might be worked up as a suicide pill.
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In Australia, meanwhile, Philip Nitschke (a doctor who helped four terminally ill people to die under the protection of a now-repealed law in that country's Northern Territory) is pushing NuTech in new directions.
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Dr Nitschke and his colleagues are scouring the scientific literature for reports of easily obtained chemicals that have failed to make it into medicine because of their toxicity, but which might prove useful for self-destruction.