Reforms designed to bring Victoria’s assisted dying framework in line with other states will be put to a conscience vote by the year’s end.
The euthanasia watchdog has been urged to consider the impact of voluntary assisted dying refusal under current Victorian rules.
Nothing prepares a person for the carefully orchestrated death of a parent. Our dysfunctional family will never recover from the stresses it placed on us.
In one of the biggest landmark social changes in the country in decades,terminally ill patients will be allowed to end their own lives under strict conditions.
Assisted dying laws,introduced in NSW a year ago,helped Annie Werner regain some control lost when she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.
A number of countries have recently passed or introduced laws to permit a form of euthanasia for people who meet certain criteria. Here’s a list.
British MPs are to debate a bill which would legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults. A decade after a similar bill was overwhelmingly rejected,the result appears to be on a knife’s edge.
The LNP leader has brushed off a third day of questions about abortion laws,while the premier has promised to grant Labor MPs a conscience vote.
The LNP leader again insisted there would be no change to abortion or assisted dying laws if he were premier. But it might not be up to him.
While LNP leader David Crisafulli has promised “no change” to assisted dying laws,moral and legal sensitivities are already evident in how the scheme is being run.