Superb Post - How do we get the law changed ? The problems seem to be not only the religious but the very legitimate problem of those who suffer from depression who will make use of any changes when they should really be prevented from using any improved laws.

Perhaps a legal insistance that months should pass between application for euthanazia and the event is sufficient especially if psychological counselling is compulsory. The religious must be firmly told that everyone has individual rights and they must not infringe on the rights of others, in the guise of doing good.

Any suggestions on how to change the law and how to rewrite it

Yes its a very sorry state of affairs when we treat our dogs better than we treat our parents all because we are frightened that people will be forcibly put down like they were in Nazi Germany.

We must trust our doctors to be responsible ethical people and usually that trust is well placed.

They offer Advertisements on T.V with graphic images of road smashes, smoking cigarettes, and AIDS and so on, (funny how there is a touch of irony to all this) this is a little out of my field, but the same shocking images of someone in a pathetic state of no return should grab the attention of the public in a very personal way.

As for law, the last will and testament should be a document written decades before the choice of youth in Asia and then left up to practitioners with the support of state and federal governments with no liability attached to any of the above bodies. You could even have it put onto a driver's licence as organ donations are presented.

Again this is out of my field, so hope these guidelines may be of some assistance.

EVO

I like the heading to this thread. When I was a teenager I was invited to a church lecture on euthanasia. I was expecting this lecture to be accompanied by a slide show or video showing the achievements of young people in Asia.

Unfortunately the issue of VOLUNTARY Euthanasia is generally ignored by the public at large and the issue is never ever considered by most until they, or someone close to them is facing an inevitable demise due to whatever cause!

We have so many do gooders, vote grabbers and religious freaks who choose to exercise their own selfish opinions by denying the need for this humanitarian "outer", instead pushing the cause of Palliative Care and similar cost intensive methods of prolonging the inevitable outcome which is quite often accompanied by unrelenting pain and suffering!

Everybody should get a taste of what could be waiting for them toward the terminal part of their lifetime and then we might see a realistic
cosideration of this delicate and emotive subject!

We are abusers of the word "humanity",....we say one thing but mean another!.....we hide away rather than face making a decision that could ease the final voyage away from what is rapidly becoming a very nasty world to live in!

For those who maintain that VE coud be used to reduce the population or exterminate a person for financial gain etc, the use of various legal constraints and conditions could make this a more viable option to what we have now!...after all if "they" want to get rid of us "they" have many methods at their disposal to implement this option right now!

I just realized how I spelt euthanasia! Sorry about that.

EVO