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A 2004 documentary film, Mademoiselle and the Doctor, focused on the quest of a retired Perth professor, Lisette Nigot, a healthy 79-year-old, to seek a successful method of voluntary euthanasia.

She sought advice from Nitschke.

Nigot took an overdose of medication that she had bought in the United States and died, just before her 80th birthday.

In a note to Nitschke, thanking him for his support, she described him as a crusader working for a worthwhile humane cause.

" After 80 years of a good life, I have enough of it ," she wrote.

" I want to stop it before it gets bad.