The issue of euthanasia aside, the elephant in the room is the tyranny of the AMA, where government handed absolute powers to a particular cartel or a professional guild, forbidding Australians to give and receive consensual medical help from whoever they want. Euthanasia is just one issue - the AMA expels anyone who would not agree with their philosophy, including doctors who also practice alternative medicine.

The problem with the anti euthanasia lobby is that they continue to promulgate the myth that the need for humanely ending the lives of suffering people with terminal illness applies to the whole of the community. In reality, only about two percent of the population are effected, the rest with die peacefully of natural causes.

David

the law needs changing . AMA is wrong

will join Exit to be ready for when i want to use it

ben

Long live both Philip Nitschke and Marshall Perron.
Two very forward thinking and humane people.

More arrogant bulldust from this man who thinks he knows best about what people want. The AMA and Hope are indeed tyrants. Three cheers for Nitschke and what he stands for.

He needs to own his own behavior and be accountable for it. Hopefully that ego and his ability to always be right, will eventually be his undoing?

We need a roust A.M.A. to keep rogue doctors out of operating theatres, just as we need an air transport Authority with teeth to keep untrained and unsafe pilots away from the controls of commercial aircraft, and for very similar reasons.

Given only around 2% of us are ever likely to need the sort of assistance Doctor death provides,with the rest of us dying in our time of natural causes; there can be no reason to compel the rest of us to accept it and the slippery slope it ushers in as law, particularly when the hyperventilating euthanasia lobby have the opportunity to make a living will anyway!
Rhrosty.