Andrew Denton’s passionate advocacy for voluntary assisted dying has been fuelled by the realisation the most powerful people in the country were opposing VAD.
Doctors who use telehealth to support patients considering Voluntary Assisted Dying risk being prosecuted under Commonwealth laws.
A new campaign highlighting people who died waiting for voluntary assisted dying in NSW will be rolled out this week.
An accident left him paraplegic at 13,but Bill went on to live a full life until his health began to fail. Dying on his own terms was his final request.
“You say goodbye to everybody and climb in,” Australian inventor Dr Philip Nitschke said.He wants to make the pod available next year in Switzerland.
Colin Stratton,80,begged his son to shoot him to end his chronic pain soon after being told paperwork for assisting dying could take weeks.
Historic reforms to grant terminally ill people the right to end their lives have cleared the NSW lower house,after members finished debating more than 160 amendments.
Voluntary assisted dying in NSW is one step closer after a vote in the lower house.
Almost two-thirds of NSW voters support voluntary assisted dying,new polling reveals.
The NSW Parliament should resist the inevitable raft of amendments to the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill,which is based on the VAD laws passed in other Australian states.
A bill put before Parliament in 2017 was far superior in the protections it offered.