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VIEWPOINT: Why the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners needs to have a Position Statement on Euthanasia.
VIEWPOINT: General Practitioners as Professionals: Why the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners needs to have a Position Statement
Legalising assisted dying would be a failure of collective human memory and imagination
Originally published in The Guardian, 20 September 2017
By Margaret Somerville
Dying and death is not a new phenomenon:
Palliative care experts warn NSW assisted dying bill ‘unsafe’
Originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November 2017
By Sean Nicholls
Palliative care professionals have presented a