Voluntary assisted dying legislation will go through its second reading in Tasmanian Parliament next week. There are still groups who don't agree with the proposed bill. Will Tasmania be the next state to enact voluntary assisted dying laws?
If that person requests voluntary assisted dying, their GP must go through all the information will them and decide whether or not they are eligible.
If they're eligible, the person must wait 2 days to think further about whether it's something they wanted to pursue.If they pass, the doctor then needs a second opinion from another doctor. If that doctor denies the patient's eligibility, they can seek a second option, and if two say no, the process ends.
Mr Gaffney's bill is 122 pages long. He travelled overseas to consult with people in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada where similar laws had been in effect for a longer period of time. "The bill as it stands is really physician-assisted suicide and we don't support that … we don't agree that a doctor should ever do any action with a primary purpose of ending a person's life," she said.
He expected doctors' support for the legislation would grow as people become more comfortable with it.The legislation has the backing of the Council of the Aging, which believes the bill has adequate safeguards in place to prevent wrongful deaths.
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