Man Dies From Taking Wife’s Euthanasia Drugs

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

A "euthanasia kit" available in the 250 Belgian Multipharma's chemist shops for the general practitioners who want to practise euthanasias at the patients' homes on April 18, 2005 ETIENNE ANSOTTE/AFP/Getty Images

Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws will be examined after a man used his wife’s euthanasia drugs after she died in hospital.

The older man was not eligible for VAD, but he died after self-ingesting the oral substance prescribed to his VAD-eligible wife who passed away before she had the chance to take it.