‘Groups welcome death bill failure’ by Zoe Edwards, The Examiner 6 November 2009 gives further comment on the decisive rejection by the Lower House of the Tasmanian Parliament of the ‘Dying with Dignity’ Bill, by pro and contra advocates of patient assisted suicide/ medical killing/ active euthanasia.

The pro case has now been investigated twice, 1998 and 2009, by the Tasmanian Parliament and this door has been firmly shut twice. It’s time to work harder on the alternative door, palliative care, to provide relief to people suffering terminal illness.

See also my Media Release of yesterday.