{"id":39,"date":"2023-06-27T00:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:57:57","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1d4fa159f4ea3f735a770c7e6a98a132\">Welcome to the website of the ACT Chapter of Exit International.<br>EXIT ACT arranges meetings and workshops for Exit members in the national capital region centred around Canberra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d2652bbad391e19dad3434741732c296\">Although the Australian Capital Territory has had Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) from November 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.act.gov.au\/health\/end-of-life-and-palliative-care\/accessing-voluntary-assisted-dying-in-the-act#Who-can-access-voluntary-assisted-dying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eligibility requirements<\/a> are significant. In particular the person applying must have decision-making capacity throughout the process, as is the case in all Australian states. This makes the VAD scheme unsuitable for persons who lose decision-making ability, especially dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e583037f4b553685dde25c6840373474\">EXIT ACT deals only with people who are already members of Exit International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-612bd00a7430f96999e843d8b29238db\">Further information and contact details for the Exit ACT chapter can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exitinternational.net\/meetings\/chapters\/\">https:\/\/www.exitinternational.net\/meetings\/chapters\/<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-13f3371704b9a98b4dbc10518918f528\">To join EXIT International, or to learn more about the work of EXIT and how it can benefit you, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/exitinternational.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/exitinternational.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the website of the ACT Chapter of Exit International.EXIT ACT arranges meetings and workshops for Exit members in the national capital region centred around Canberra. Although the Australian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}