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Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Australia: Legalising Assisted Dying Has Led to More Suicide

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The Anscombe Bioethics Centre Press Release, 9 January 2024 New research published in the  Journal of Ethics in Mental Health  has found tha...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Graham Morant Red Flag to Oppose Assisted Suicide Legalization

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By Richard Egan. To view pdf, click here . In a unanimous decision by three judges of the Queensland Court of Appeal handed down in Bri...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Australia: Graham Robert Morant Loses Assisted Suicide Appeal

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By  Lydia Lynch, Brisbane Times A Queensland man sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping his wife to kill herself for a $1.4 mill...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Australia: If Assisted Dying Is a Right, Must It Be Made Available to Everyone?

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Queensland Parliament By Margaret Dore, Esq. A Queensland Australia Parliamentary Committee has made recommendations concerning volunt...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Counseling Suicide to Obtain Life Insurance

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Justice Peter Davis To view original article,  click here “However, one can imagine many circumstances arising where people in position...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Australia: Husband Who Aided Wife's Suicide to Obtain Her Life Insurance Sentenced to Prison

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Graham Morant, AAP Dan Peled By Melanie Vujkovic Graham Robert Morant was last month found guilty on two charges — counselling suicide...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Australian Man Convicted of Assisting Suicide

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An Australian man has been convicted of aiding his wife's suicide, after a court heard he  had coveted payouts from her life insuranc...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Australia: Man pleads not guilty to assisting his wife's suicide, as prosecutors claim he did so to access her life insurance

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By Melanie Vujkovic, click here to view original article A 69-year-old man who has pleaded not guilty to assisting his wife to kill he...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Australia Defeats Euthanasia

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"[T]he title of their legislation gave the game away." By Denis Strangman In a narrow vote the Australian Senate today (Thu...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Victoria's Euthanasia Bill Is Not What it Was Promised to Be

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Fabian Stahle has issued a thoughtful and detailed report regarding Oregon's six months of live criteria, which is determined in practi...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Is Self-Administration Enforceable?

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By Margaret Dore, Esq. Victoria's deceptively named Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill uses the term, "self-administer," at le...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Wrap Up Australia: New South Wales and Victoria

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Rachel Carling-Jenkins, Victoria MP Two weeks ago, the Upper House of New South Wales defeated a bill seeking to legalise assisted suici...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Diane Coleman's Letter to Members of the Victoria Legislative Council Opposing Assisted Suicide

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Diane Coleman, JD I am writing behalf of Not Dead Yet, a national disability rights group in the U.S. that opposes legalization of assis...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Australia: Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Defeated in New South Wales

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NSW Legislative Council Today, the New South Wales' Upper House voted against a purported "Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill."...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Margaret Dore Analysis Opposing Victoria Euthanasia Bill

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Council Chamber To view this analysis as a pdf, click the following links containing, an index ; a memo ; and an appendix I.  INTRODU...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Worldwide Theater Protest: Melbourne Australia

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http://thevine.com.au/entertainment/disability-activists-boycotting-hashtag-mebeforeeuthanasia/ While rom-com   ‘Me Before You’ was onl...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

A Letter From Western Australia to Canadian MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette

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I was pleased to see you  questioning the impact of legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia on Canada's Indigenous people. ...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Margaret Dore Speaking to Australian Delegation

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Margaret Dore, Esq., MBA,  speaking  to the Delegation On April 7, 2016, Margaret Dore, attorney and president of Choice is an Illusi...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Man convicted of murder "claimed his mother committed suicide"

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http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/man-convicted-of-murdering-his-mother/story-e6frg13u-1226522829658 A 27-YEAR-old Perth m...