Gavin Pattullo,whose wife Venessa took her life in 2018 after a 14-year battle with leukemia,said he feared that delays would mean “more people will suffer”.
The former premier,who led arguments against voluntary euthanasia in NSW in the 1990s,said other Australian states had proven that voluntary assisted dying laws could work.
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Politicians should let the evidence guide their decision-making on voluntary assisted dying.
Former deputy premier John Watkins,who chairs Catholic Health Australia,is lobbying MPs to oppose voluntary assisted dying in NSW.
My wife did not have the option of “assisted” dying. She had to make that choice alone. The debate over the law to come before the NSW Parliament should not be confounded by political hyperbole.
My mum’s death left me with the view that,despite good intentions,laws cannot replace human love,compassion and ingenuity.
Twenty-eight MPs from across the NSW Parliament will support new legislation to legalise voluntary euthanasia,the highest number of co-sponsors to a bill in the history of any Australian parliament.
As the NSW Parliament prepares to debate voluntary assisted dying laws,progressive MPs need to consider quantum advances in palliative care already available,but which only the wealthy can afford.
Coronial data reveals that one in five suicides in the over 40s age group are people with a terminal illness.
After the bruising abortion debate two years ago,Berejiklian assured her MPs that there would be no more conscience votes.