{"id":11250,"date":"2012-05-15T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=11250"},"modified":"2012-05-15T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T23:55:39","slug":"realdignitytas-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/05\/15\/realdignitytas-com\/","title":{"rendered":"REALdignitytas.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of eminent Tasmanians have just released a great\u00a0resource\u00a0which answers\u00a0questions about euthanasia: REALdignitytas.com<\/a><\/p>\n

You will be able to hear about true dignity and the dangers of euthanasia to our society by such experts as: Dr Jeremy Prichard <\/a>(Criminal Law Lecturer),Dr Nicholas Cooling<\/a> (Senior Lecturer & GP),The Honourable William Cox<\/a> (Former Governor of Tasmania), Professor Ray Rowenthal<\/a> (Director Medical Oncology), Dr Paul Dunne<\/a> (Palliative Care Specialist), The Honourable Ray Groom<\/a> (Southern Cross Care), Professor Michael Tate <\/a>(International Law Lecturer) and Dr Kristi Giselsson <\/a>(Doctor of Philosophy).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Below are links to questions that can be answered from this website:<\/p>\n

Q1: What is euthanasia and assisted suicide?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Euthanasia <\/strong>is the deliberate act undertaken by one person with the intention of ending the life of another person in order to relieve that person\u2019s suffering.
\nAssisted suicide <\/strong>is the act of intentionally killing oneself with the assistance of another who provides the knowledge, means or both.<\/p>\n

Q2: What is the legal position of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Tasmania? <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal in Tasmania. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal in all states and territories of Australia; and in almost all other countries in the world.<\/p>\n

Q3: What are my rights with regard to discontinuing medical treatment? If death results, isn’t this a form of euthanasia? <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Patients do not receive unwanted, burdensome and futile treatments.<\/li>\n
  2. A competent adult may refuse medical treatment even if that refusal will result in his or her death…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Q4:But what about all those people who are near death and suffer intolerable pain? <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

    Whilst it is important to recognise the difficulties experienced by the small number of \u00a0individuals suffering such pain, what is clear from this finding is that in those small number of cases, terminal sedation or the administration of pain relief is a legally acceptable response. There is no need to introduce intentional killing as a treatment option.<\/p>\n

    Q5:Aren’t doctors already practising euthanasia in Tasmania by administering pain killers to deliberately end lives?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

    It is important to note that euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is not a component of palliative care. Palliative Care Australia, the national peak body for Palliative Care in Australia states that \u2018The practice of palliative and end of life care does not include deliberate ending of life through voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, even if the patient requests this<\/p>\n

    Q6:Opinion polls show an overwhelming support for freedom of choice in euthanasia. Why not just go with public opinion? <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

    Often the questions asked in opinion polls are ambiguous or not situated in the correct context Opinion polls show that the closer a person is involved in palliative care and with the dying, the less likely that person is to be in favour of euthanasia.<\/p>\n

    Lots more helpful information at REALdignitytas.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, Euthanasia: Care or Killing?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A group of eminent Tasmanians have just released a great\u00a0resource\u00a0which answers\u00a0questions about euthanasia: REALdignitytas.com You will be able to hear about true dignity and the dangers of euthanasia to our society by such experts as: Dr Jeremy Prichard (Criminal Law … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11250"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11296,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions\/11296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}