Ludwig Minelli , director of Dignitas wrote to John Todd, then President of Dying with Dignity Qld in 2011 about the effect of Swiss law on assisted suicide and how it might be used to improve life and death for people who want to die. We have included his letter…
DWDACT has prepared a quick comparison of the various features of approaches to assisted dying in the ACT, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland the USA and Northern Territory Click to view the table » …
My talk today is in three parts: It’s designed to ask you to think about why we need law reform in relation to death. I am arguing that we currently have no control over the end of our lives and this is due to the law. How we die is…
When it comes to dying and death we live in a Victorian world. Our thinking and behaviours about how we should die are conditioned by laws passed and largely unchanged since the life of Queen Victoria. In the Australian Capital Territory the legislation on assisting suicide is outlined in sections…
