Pro-life groups are outraged some New Zealanders are planning overseas suicide shopping trips.
Renowned euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke is helping a group travel to Mexico to buy the deadly drug nembutal - a drug used used by vets to euthanaise animals.
Nitschke says people want to know they have got an option.
"If they have that drug they've obtained it, they've got it safely stored away they don't feel so vulnerable."
Nitschke has been helping sick and elderly Australians travel to Mexico to obtain nembutal for years and now, around 10 New Zealanders have enlisted his services.
"If you get yourself to...well to America, that's the usual embarkation point, within a certain range of time we'll make sure that we've been down into Mexico a few days earlier and got you the most accurate information," he says.
Then Nitschke says it is up to the individual to bring the drug back.
In New Zealand nembutal is a class C controlled drug meaning it is illegal to possess and import it unless you have a prescription.
Pro life groups say Nitschke should be punished for encouraging people to break the law.
"The only right course of action is for the drugs to be confiscated at border and if he is going to persist in doing this than surely we've got to take action against him," says Brendan Malone of Family Life International.
The penalty for possessing nembutal is up to three months in jail and for importing it can be eight years. But Nitschke says people are willing to take the risk.
