Add Your Name More than 80% of us believe terminally ill Australians should have a choice not to suffer at the end of life. Six states have passed voluntary assisted dying laws – but the Territories are still denied this choice. Go Gentle Australia are building Australia’s biggest Record of Support to tell politicians why we […]
Voluntary Assisted Dying now legal in 6 Australian States
Fantastic news Australia.. the New South Wales Parliament finally passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 on Thursday 19th May 2022. Voluntary Assisted Dying is now legal in NSW, the culmination of 50 years of advocacy. Victoria passed it’s laws in 2017, Western Australia in 2019, Tasmania in 2020/21 and South Australia and Queensland in […]
Assisted Dying Legal in Victoria from today..
A woman whose terminally ill husband lobbied hard for assisted dying to be legalised in Victoria is “over the moon” the controversial laws will come into effect from today Wednesday June 19, 2019. Former Shell Coles Express managing director Peter Short, 57, died in 2014 in palliative care after being given terminal sedation for oesophageal […]
Victorian Assisted-Dying Guidelines
Three pharmacists at The Alfred hospital have been given the job of mixing and delivering the lethal dose to be taken by Victoria’s first voluntary euthanasia patients. The pharmacists will personally deliver the substance, made from a cocktail of drugs already legal in Australia, in a locked box to terminally ill people across the state. […]
Go Gentle Australia
Go Gentle Australia, founded by Andrew Denton, is an expert advisory and health promotion charity for a better conversation around death, dying and end of life choices, in particular voluntary assisted dying. We’re about the right to choose a peaceful death: to give those suffering with untreatable or terminal illness the choice to “go gentle”, […]
