Keywords: Medically Assisted Dying
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AUSTRALIA
- Margaret Somerville
- 03 June 2021
80 Comments
The case against euthanasia is much more difficult to promote, not because it is weak — it is not — but because it is much more complex.
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AUSTRALIA
- Margaret Somerville
- 03 June 2021
9 Comments
No one on either side of the debate wants to see people suffer and the euthanasia debate is not about if we will die — we all will at some point. The debate is about how we will die and whether some ways of dying, namely euthanasia, are unethical and dangerous, especially to vulnerable and fragile people, and destructive of important shared values on which we base our societies.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 20 May 2021
25 Comments
Australian jurisdictions are presently considering laws and policies relating to euthanasia, physician assisted dying and medically assisted suicide. The law can and should provide bright-line solutions or at least firm parameters within which the dying, their loved ones and their care providers can negotiate dying and death.
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