Keywords: Physician Assisted Suicide
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 05 November 2014
38 Comments
Physician assisted suicide and euthanasia are back, in the courts of Canada and the UK, and in the parliaments of the UK and Australia. The Australian Senate is considering the Greens' formulation of a broad and fuzzy law that goes further than UK proposals in that it would allow Dr Philip Nitschke to administer a fatal injection.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 June 2011
27 Comments
Physician Chuck Bentz received a request to be the 'second opinion' for the assisted-suicide of a melanoma patient. Bentz objected and said there were better ways to address the needs of this patient, whom he had known for over a decade. Next he knew, his patient was dead.
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INTERNATIONAL
- John Kleinsman
- 21 September 2010
11 Comments
The debate about euthanasia arises only in certain societies that see the world as
belonging to those who are independent, strong and productive. In a society in which the sick, dying,
disabled and elderly are undervalued, the 'right' to die will all too
quickly become a 'duty' to die.
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