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A Victorian coroner has asked the state’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board to consider several suicides by people who were ruled ineligible.

Denied access to euthanasia, they took their own lives. A coroner hopes their despair will not go unheeded

The euthanasia watchdog has been urged to consider the impact of voluntary assisted dying refusal under current Victorian rules.

  • Broede Carmody

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The assisted dying process can be tough on the family.

I’m thankful my mother could leave the world on her own terms - but the system is flawed for families like mine

Nothing prepares a person for the carefully orchestrated death of a parent. Our dysfunctional family will never recover from the stresses it placed on us.

  • Andrea Dixon
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 29: Labour MP Kim Leadbeater (C), who proposed the landmark private member’s bill on assisted dying, meets campaigners after a parliamentary vote was passed in support of assisted dying on November 29, 2024 in London, England. MPs will vote today on the Assisted Dying Bill, which will give adults in England and Wales the right to end their lives at a time of their choosing. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Assisted dying to be legalised in England and Wales after historic vote

In one of the biggest landmark social changes in the country in decades, terminally ill patients will be allowed to end their own lives under strict conditions.

  • Rob Harris
Annie Werner (left) with friend and mortality doula Sarah Barry at Werner’s “living wake” last year.

Sarah helped her friend end her life. Here’s what it taught her about death

Assisted dying laws, introduced in NSW a year ago, helped Annie Werner regain some control lost when she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer.

  • Angus Thomson
Sydney couple, Anjelika Elliott holds her husband Dr John Elliott’s hands as he attempts to rise from his hotel room bed in Zurich 26 hours before going to the Dignitas clinic where he ended his life in 2007.

The legal status of assisted dying around the world

A number of countries have recently passed or introduced laws to permit a form of euthanasia for people who meet certain criteria. Here’s a list.

  • Sarah Young
The controversial ads displayed at a Tube station in London.

Controversial Tube ads spark outrage as right to die debate divides Britain

British MPs are to debate a bill which would legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults. A decade after a similar bill was overwhelmingly rejected, the result appears to be on a knife’s edge.

  • Rob Harris
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Queensland state LNP leader David Crisafulli

‘Sensitive issue’: LNP campaign mired in questions of conscience

The LNP leader has brushed off a third day of questions about abortion laws, while the premier has promised to grant Labor MPs a conscience vote.

  • Matt Dennien
LNP leader David Crisafulli speaks to journalists during a campaign stop in Cairns on Tuesday.

‘Show their true colours’: Leadership test looms for Crisafulli

The LNP leader again insisted there would be no change to abortion or assisted dying laws if he were premier. But it might not be up to him.

  • Matt Dennien and William Davis
Deputy Premier Steven Miles hopes euthanasia laws pass with a sufficient majority.

Doctors travelling, posting scripts to avoid ‘suicide’ investigations

While LNP leader David Crisafulli has promised “no change” to assisted dying laws, moral and legal sensitivities are already evident in how the scheme is being run.

  • Sean Parnell, Matt Dennien and William Davis
Former assistant minister to the attorney-general and for women Amanda Stoker during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra in February 2022.

Former right-wing senator, Sky News host may get cabinet role if LNP wins power, MP suggests

Although denied by leader David Crisafulli, speculation has been rife that former conservative senator Amanda Stoker could be parachuted into an LNP cabinet.

  • Matt Dennien

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