Garpal Gumnut
Ross Island Hotel
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The last ASF member to start a thread on this subject was @Julia . She included suicide which I have omitted. Wikipedia gives some commonsense definitions and recent state legislation which I have quoted below.
In this Time of Covid the treatment of our elderly in nursing homes before and during the epidemic has been exposed. I would certainly not wish to be bed bound in one of the institutions slated recently by the Commissioner.
I had been quite anti Euthanasia but having researched it in some detail I am if not exactly pro, believe I myself would consider it in a terminal or getting to useless state.
The epidemic has exposed the normal bloody mindedness of business mostly led by males aged 35-55 in relation to the welfare of the aged in insisting on opening up borders and allowing the virus to infect the population in a "business as usual" manner. If I were to be a burden I would prefer to chose the time and method of my exit, rather than be shunted hither and thither between a ventilator and abuse. I would also prefer to go with dignity if terminally ill.
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In this Time of Covid the treatment of our elderly in nursing homes before and during the epidemic has been exposed. I would certainly not wish to be bed bound in one of the institutions slated recently by the Commissioner.
I had been quite anti Euthanasia but having researched it in some detail I am if not exactly pro, believe I myself would consider it in a terminal or getting to useless state.
The epidemic has exposed the normal bloody mindedness of business mostly led by males aged 35-55 in relation to the welfare of the aged in insisting on opening up borders and allowing the virus to infect the population in a "business as usual" manner. If I were to be a burden I would prefer to chose the time and method of my exit, rather than be shunted hither and thither between a ventilator and abuse. I would also prefer to go with dignity if terminally ill.
Australia
Main article: Euthanasia in Australia
As euthanasia is a health issue, under the Australian constitution this falls to state governments to legislate and manage.
Euthanasia was legal within the Northern Territory during parts of 1996 - 1997 as a result of the territory parliament passing Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995. As a territory and not a state, the federal government under Prime Minister John Howard amended the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (amongst others) to ensure that territories of Australia are no longer able to legislate on euthanasia.[13] This reversed the legal status of euthanasia in the Northern Territory, where it has remained illegal since. The federal government is not able to legislate restrictions on health issues for the six Australian states in the same manner.[14]
On 29 November 2017, the Victorian Government passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Victoria), legalising physician-assisted suicide.[15] The laws came into effect on 19 June 2019 and feature 68 safeguards designed to protect the vulnerable.[16][17] As of February 2020, Victoria is the only Australian state with legalised assisted death, though it will soon be available in Western Australia following the passing of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019.[18]
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