A new study which has examined levels of support for euthanasia for people with dementia (otherwise referred to as Advance Request Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (“AR-EAS”)) yet again confirms just how inadequate public polling on euthanasia really is. Continue reading

The McGowan government has quantified just how much it cares about providing end-of-life “choice” to the sick and vulnerable in Western Australia… and the results are disappointing, although not unexpected. Continue reading

Nine years ago, New Zealand woman Vicki Walsh was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and told she only had 12 months to live. Continue reading

This week, two front line doctors from Australia and New Zealand have given voice to their concerns about the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide and the consequences for the practice of medicine, as well as for the long term care of patients at end of life. Continue reading

“Elderly people in aged-care facilities infected with COVID-19 are being refused hospital admission and are instead being heavily sedated in understaffed and under-siege nursing homes.” Continue reading

The first annual report on euthanasia statistics in Canada has been released, providing a breakdown of the number of people euthanised under their Medical Aid in Dying legislation (“MAiD”) in 2019. Continue reading

Euthanasia advocates in Queensland must be getting increasingly nervous at their attempts to push euthanasia and assisted suicide laws through parliament before the next election. Continue reading

Tasmania’s Independent MLC Mike Gaffney has released another draft of his euthanasia and assisted suicide bill, purportedly after “wide” community consultation on the previous draft.  Continue reading

We know that the death lobby are shameless when it comes to twisting language in order to mask the horror of what they are proposing and also to get the public to support their cause. Instead of “suicide”, “killing” or even “euthanasia”, they use sanitised terms such as ‘dying with dignity’, ‘assisted dying’, ‘voluntary assisted dying.’ Continue reading

There are two different societies, inhabited by two very different types of medical professionals, that emerge in the euthanasia debate. Continue reading