Al Jazeera network documentary - A License to Kill
The Al Jazeera network documentary, A License to Kill, about euthanasia in Australia was recently aired across the globe to an estimated 200 million people viewing audience.
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World Congress of Families Sydney May 2013
I was asked by the World Congress people to give a short address on the relationship between euthanasia & assisted suicide and family dysfunction.
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Fear of growing old - reason to die in Switzerland?
82 year old Swiss citizen Alda Gross wants to die by assisted suicide. She is simply growing old.
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AMA (SA) chief slams SA euthanasia bill - again
In February this year we reported that the South Australian branch of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) had written to all South Australian lower house MPs roundly criticising this and another end-of-life related bill proposed by The Hon Bob Such MP.
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Doctors' Words Influence End-of-Life Decisions Made By Patients' families
This is an important article from . It highlights how critical the doctor is in shaping and influencing a family's decision in regards to treatment at the end-of-life for a loved one.TIME's
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Vermont (USA) legalises assisted suicide
The Vermont legislature passed their assisted suicide bill today in what is a first for the USA. In Washington State and in Oregon, assisted suicide became possible via citizen initiated referenda of the type that was defeated in Massachusetts last November.
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Is public policy on euthanasia & assisted suicide based on religion?
When giving interviews for all sorts of media about euthanasia & assisted suicide, I'm often asked if HOPE is a religious organisation.Certainly Dr Nitschke seems to think so as he has often claimed that HOPE is a 'Christian fundamentalist' organisation.
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De Duve's death is no advertisement for euthanasia
The euthanasia death of Belgian Nobel Prize winner raises the spectre of the subtlety of coercion, abuse and the absence of real caring writes :
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