Long Blows: Voluntary euthanasia debate has a "long way to run"

February 26 2015 - 4:00am
Long Blows by Derrick Mason.
Long Blows by Derrick Mason.

According to the city press, there is a move to again raise the issue of voluntary euthanasia in the next term of State Parliament. Those who are seeking to advance the question are hoping to make it a bi-partisan issue. This is a somewhat vexed issue with which governments all over the world, mainly those of a more democratic nature, have grappled for many years. Switzerland is one national government which has enacted legislation in favour of the practice, and there have been a number of widely publicised cases where people with terminal illnesses have travelled there to take advantage of the opportunity to end their lives with some dignity.

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