As the Andrews government prepares to introduce laws giving terminally ill people the right to a physician-assisted death in Victoria, attention has turned to the vexed question of who should qualify – and whether people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease ought to be included.
Continue Reading → Assisted dying laws: Call for dementia sufferers to be included
The Victorian Ministerial Advisory Panel charged by Premier Daniel Andrews with the task of developing a safe way to kill people and to help them to suicide, released its interim report.
Continue Reading → Truth: the first casualty
Euthanasia and assisted suicide is sold to the public as a matter of choice; perhaps the ultimate act of autonomy. But what if there seems to be no choice at all?
Continue Reading → No Choice – abuse and coercion to death
Exit boss and former medical doctor, Philip Nitschke recently awarded his 'Peaceful Pill Prize' to an elderly Australian couple because the woman cried an expletive at Professor Margaret Somerville on an Australian National current affairs program.
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A colourful exchange during ABC TV's panel program Q and A recently on the question of euthanasia and assisted suicide drove home to me the stark reality that what we're really talking about here is a lifestyle choice.
Continue Reading → Suicide as a lifestyle choice