The Age Digital Edition: Euthanasia rules set as start date nears Victoria’s health department head will have three days to decide whether to sign off on each bid for voluntary euthanasia when the practice becomes legal in nine months (June 2019). Euthanasia drugs will also have to be kept in a steel box with a […]
An incredibly brave courageous woman, Kerry Robertson has become the first person to successfully use Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying law. The Herald Sun Digital Edition: New law used to end life Kerry Robertson, 61, died at a Bendigo nursing home on July 15, 2019 surrounded by her … [Read More...]
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 … [Read More...]
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 … [Read More...]
