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The UK parliament is due to vote on the Assisted Dying Bill.
Ahead of this week’s parliamentary vote on the divisive Assisted Dying Bill, Maya Dhillon spoke with three GPs in New Zealand, where assisted dying has been legal for three years.
The Ministry of Health's review of the End Of Life Choice Act has been published.
In 2024, the Ministry of Health completed the first review of the End of Life Choice Act 2019. The results of that review and the recommendations are now (as of 20 November) available on their website.
Kiwis collect Awards at the VADCON24 conference in Queensland.
VADCON24 was a two-day conference for medical practitioners engaged in or interested in voluntary assisted dying (VAD).
Dr Jessica Young, assisted dying researcher with Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, won the Innovation Award for Emerging Research.
The winner of the Community Champion Award was Tōtara Hospice in South Auckland for their contribution to advocacy, education and innovation in relation to assisted dying in New Zealand. As the only one of New Zealand’s 32 hospices to support assisted dying, this was richly deserved.
Both winners were participants in expert panel discussions at the conference.
There was a wait-list for in-person attendance by medical practitioners from Australia/New Zealand while an international audience attended remotely.
The Queensland University of Technology conference was jointly sponsored by assisted dying advocacy organisation Go Gentle Australia and peak body for medical professionals engaged across the Tasman in voluntary assisted dying (VAD) VADANZ .
The End-of-Life Choice Society NZ is proud to have sponsored both award-winners. We thank them for their patient-centred support of end-of-life patients.
Dementia and Assisted Dying
In acknowledgment of the escalating global health crisis surrounding dementia, the World Federation of Right to Die Societies is proud to announce the launch of its informative 2024 Webinar Series on dementia, titled “Dementia – Glimpsed Futures,” in celebration of World Right to Die Day (WRTDD) on November 2nd.
Public consultation opens on review of the End of Life Choice Act
New Zealanders are invited to share their views on the End of Life Choice Act 2019 as part of a review of the Act. Online consultation will run until 5pm on Thursday 26 September 2024.
Dying together: Why a happily married couple decided to die together.
Jan and Els were married for almost five decades. In early June, they died together after being given lethal medication by two doctors. In the Netherlands, this is known as duo-euthanasia. It’s legal, and it’s rare - but every year, more Dutch couples choose to end their lives this way.
David Levitt feared the worst with his brain tumour diagnosis: that he wouldn’t be able to die by choice
His wife says family ‘disengaged completely from palliative care services’ for fear Catholic hospital wouldn’t provide voluntary assisted dying
"It was cruel": dying patient denied euthanasia in Catholic-run hospital.
Sally wanted to die on her own terms. But despite voluntary assisted dying being legal in Victoria, her advocates say a Catholic palliative care facility obstructed access