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VIEWPOINT: General Practitioners as Professionals: Why the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners needs to have a Position Statement on Euthanasia.
Dr Kevin Fitzsimons
Originally published in The Guardian, 20 September 2017
By Margaret Somerville
Dying and death is not a new phenomenon: we have always become ill,
Originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November 2017
By Sean Nicholls
Palliative care professionals have presented a united front against proposed voluntary
Originally published in The Age, 16 October 2017
by Emma Dawson
I ‘ve hesitated before entering the debate around the assisted dying legislation now before the Victorian Parliament, because people of good intentions are driving the legislative process. But the willingness of some euthanasia advocates to paint all opposition as religious zealotry must not go unchallenged.
I’ m not religious. And, for the record, I support both marriage equality
Originally published in The Age, 9 October 2017
by Marion Harris
Most patients with incurable cancer battle to the end. They exhaust all evidence-based
Once euthanasia or assisted-suicide is legalised for a select group, before long the argument is put that it’s discriminatory not to allow it for others, including
Sinéad Donnelly
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Capital & Coast District Health Board (CCDHB), Wellington
Adjunct Professor, School Biological Sciences, Victoria University, Wellington
Senior Clinical
Do hospitals and hospices already effectively practice euthanasia through administering pain relief or withholding medications?
Radio New Zealand interviews Sinead Donnelly of the Australian
The cost of legal action has led the Medical Council to abandon its proposed statement on the advice doctors should give when they have
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