A bill on physician-assisted suicide is being considered by the Scottish parliament. It is the second attempt by independent member Margo MacDonald, who has Parkinson’s disease, to get such a law onto…
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Late last week, the Belgian parliament passed laws that granted children access to euthanasia. The laws have been controversial and attracted significant discussion internationally. Opponents of reform…
Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper killed herself before the watershed last night. The build up to this prompted the inevitable moral panic frenzy. The media’s role in the representation of suicide is…
When it comes to legislating voluntary euthanasia in Australia, success is rare and short lived. The Tasmanian Voluntary Assisted Dying bill is the latest such piece of euthanasia legislation to be defeated…
First case of voluntary euthanasia for a child has taken place. But there are fundamental issues with this procedure.
Lord Falconer’s assisted dying bill would allow registered doctors to take steps to help mentally competent adult patients to end their own lives, but only in certain circumstances. One of these circumstances…
A report we recently prepared with independent think tank Australia21 calls for state governments to institute laws allowing and regulating voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide – in defined and limited…
Australians are living longer. But not everyone wants to live as long as they can. People sometimes have good reasons for wanting to end their lives: they may be suffering from a terminal illness; they…
Voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide are never far from the public spotlight. But we still haven’t had an honest and open debate about this issue in Australia. End-of-life matters crop up from time…
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Healthcare and Medical Law, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, University of Oxford
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Professor of Law, University of Essex
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Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor, Palliative Physician, Queen's University, Ontario
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of the West of England
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Lecturer in Health and Social Care Ethics, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Ethics and Health Law, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Psychiatric Times., Tufts University