voluntary assisted dying

The bill will also allow patients to consider assisted suicide even if they are not predicted to die within the next 12 months.

Religious aged care providers say VAD will become an ‘intolerable corruption’ to the service.

The incident is believed to be the first time VAD drugs have been misused in Australia.

The state had 318 authorised euthanasia practitioners composed of doctors and nurses who completed the required training.

It is absurd to pass legislation to allow one person to kill another, even with the latter’s permission.