Canada TV News surveyed provincial and territorial health ministries to gather the most comprehensive picture of the practice to date. The data collected by CTV News also showed that most patients who opted for an assisted death suffered from conditions such as cancer or neurological...
House Bill 470 makes knowingly assisting in a suicide a third-degree felony in Ohio, punishable by up to five years in prison. Previously, Ohio law only permitted a court to issue an injunction against someone who helps another kill him or herself. The measure was...
Dying With Dignity Victoria are delighted by the recent ruling in Dr Rodney Syme's VCAT case, where he fought against a condition placed on his medical license by the Medical Board of Australia in relation to counselling that he was providing to a Victorian man....
The Victorian government this week appointed a ministerial advisory panel that will help guide the government as it drafts legislation in coming months. The group will be chaired by former Australian Medical Association president Brian Owler, a trained neurosurgeon who is seen as a strong...
Governor John Hickenlooper on Friday signed into law a voter-passed initiative to allow terminally ill adults, with fewer than six months to live, to end their lives with prescribed medication. Proposition 106, known as “End of Life Options,” took effect the moment Hickenlooper penned his...
By Jan Caro Usually the increase in pain relief is agreed to, in a coded fashion, by both the relatives and medical practitioners tending to the dying person.The group we never consider are those who grieve. And those are the people who – in desperate circumstances...
By Andrew McGee, Lindy Willmot and Ben White of QUT What is interesting from a law reform perspective is the decision to include an implementation review step in the process. The premier revealed that an expert Ministerial Advisory Panel of clinical, legal, consumer, health administrator and...
By Professor Ross Fitzgerald There is probably no other issue in Australian public life that can claim such increasing levels of support over the past decade. What we are talking about is dying with dignity, or voluntary euthanasia. With such overwhelming levels of support, how come...
A ministerial advisory panel will be established to help draft a "safe and compassionate" legislative framework for assisted dying in Victoria. The Victorian Government will introduce this bill to the Parliament in the second half of 2017 and Labor MPs will be granted a conscience...
The Age embraces the news, and urges parliamentarians to support a voluntary assisted dying bill in Victoria. They believe there is a compelling case for the change, which polls have shown has long been supported by as many as four in five Australians, and which...
Voluntary euthanasia has been knocked back in South Australian Parliament for the 15th time after a marathon late session in the House of Assembly overnight. The bill initially passed a second reading stage leading to a debate that continued up until about 4:00am. But the...
Speaking to your MP is the single most effective step people can take in the push for voluntary euthanasia laws, campaigner Andrew Denton says. He said family stories, in particular, were powerful, and MPs couldn’t ignore that....