More doctors are speaking out about the reality that face their patients at the end of their lives and which is the reason why the vast majority of the population support voluntary assisted dying legislation. The core strategy of opponents of the legislation, inside and outside our
Read more →A draft NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill was released yesterday for public consultation by a cross-party group of MPs. The campaign for the Bill has started with a change.org petition featuring a video by Annie who knows only too well the need for the legislation. She has Motor
Read more →Legal action is being taken in Texas, in the US, on behalf of a family who claim that their mother was subjected to “senseless torture … for over 10 days” and the healthcare providers failed to act in accordance with her advance care directive. Read more … There are
Read more →Julia Lamb’s story from Canada is a very good example of why the Tasmanian Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill allows access to a doctor’s help for people in a situation like hers. That is, for people in the advanced stages of a serious incurable and irreversible medical condition
Read more →Not only forced to go to Switzerland, and to die away from his home but to die earlier than he would have done. This article reports the story of Colin Campbell, who has “primary progressive MS, a rarer form of the disease affecting around 10-15 per cent of
Read more →Sylvia Henshaw, the widow of a Nova Scotian man, Douglas Henshaw, has spoken out about the way his assisted death under the Canadian legislation was done with love and respect and resulted in a death with dignity and peace. She shows too what the impact is when
Read more →The stories from Canada continue to come showing the positive impact of their assisted dying legislation. This article includes the story of Rob Rollins who chose assisted dying due to the suffering caused by throat and neck cancer. As his husband said: “Very peaceful”.
Read more →This Canadian story highlights key issues about the kind of assisted dying legislation that’s needed, the hurdles being put in the way of those who want to use it and the cruel choice for those who can’t – starve yourself to death. Linda Crabtree, a Member of
Read more →Yet another example of the terrible damage being done to good people by the absence of a voluntary assisted dying law. How many more will it take for the hearts and minds of politicians and doctrinaire religious campaigners to be prised open? This article from the ABC
Read more →Rose’s Story – This is of the most harrowing stories we’ve seen, of so many harrowing stories, of the terrible harm being done to people and their loved ones by the failure of politicians to vote to help people with the most profound suffering, to work for
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