End-of-Life Choice Society of New Zealand

Medically assisted dying services became available in New Zealand on 7 November 2021, rewarding decades of campaigning by the End-of-Life Choice Society.

The law does not allow doctors to suggest or recommend assisted dying to their patients. A patient must initiate the conversation by explicitly asking their doctor to help them with an assisted death. For further information and help with this please see our video here.

If your doctor is a conscientious objector or refuses to discuss assisted dying with you, get help directly from the Ministry of Health: