“Big Four” accounting firm KPMG has found that a significant investment in palliative care will actually save governments health care costs. Continue reading

New Zealanders will soon go to the polls to decide whether to allow the legalisation of euthanasia in that country. Continue reading

Whilst some euthanasia and assisted suicide services have been paused or stopped completely during the COVID-19 pandemic, news from some jurisdictions indicates that euthanasia providers are using this opportunity to get around various ‘safeguards’ when it comes to providing access to euthanasia and assisted suicide. Continue reading

When data over many years of euthanasia practice is collated, a scary picture begins to emerge. Continue reading

  “However harsh: euthanasia care cannot be identified as a top priority in health care.” Continue reading

“How much more money are we going to spend on him keeping him alive?” Continue reading

"We anticipate in the first 12 months, based on overseas experience, around a dozen people that will access voluntary assisted dying." Continue reading

Now that Western Australia and Victoria have chosen the cheaper option by voting for legalised euthanasia at the expense of adequately funded palliative care, the pressure is on Queensland to follow suit. Pro-euthanasia activists are doing their best to ensure this issue is brought before the next state election, in case there is a change of government.   Continue reading

A recent vote in the WA Legislative Council (the Upper House) has provided a legislative guarantee that regional and remote residents in WA are entitled to the same access to euthanasia and assisted suicide as metropolitan residents.  A subsequent vote decided against providing a commensurate legislative guarantee that they are entitled to access palliative care, no matter where they live in the state. Continue reading

Usually when the expansion of euthanasia and assisted suicide over time is discussed, it is looked at from a legal perspective, that is, considering how initially narrow categories of those eligible for euthanasia are expanded overtime in the law. Continue reading