Hi Cherful,

Yes, of course, better palliative care AND protection of the rights to die at a time of one's choosing - only one's own, nobody else involved.

Yes, even if someone takes a fatal dose, that should be their right BUT there would have to be very clear guide-lines that nobody else was involved, and certainly not someone who might stand to benefit from the distribution of their assets after death. This always seems be the stumbling block: how to ensure that nobody else has been involved, since that could constitute murder.

Whether, as in the Vic legislation, a team of doctors and others would be able to administer, or assist a dying person to administer, fatal medication (perhaps an oxymoron), surely the whole procedure would have to be filmed ? And perhaps overseen by a specialised member of the police force ?

Cheers,

Joe