EUTHANASIA SUBMISSIONS
The Queensland Parliamentary Health, Communities, Disability Services and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee (the Health Committee) has called for submissions on aged care, end-of-life and palliative care and voluntary assisted dying. Voluntary assisted dying, also known as euthanasia is assisted-killing.
We would encourage you to send in a submission on this critical matter. Submissions are due by 15 April. Please click here to send in a submission. Every submission counts.
If you answer at least one question we suggest it would be:
Question 25: Should voluntary assisted dying (VAD) be allowed in Queensland? Why/why not?
Please email the answer to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 15 April.
For an online submission form - please click here
WHY NOT EUTHANASIA?
The Australian Medical Association is against euthanasia of any kind.
- All the peak medical advisory or representative bodies in Australia are opposed to euthanasia, as too is the World Medical Association.
- 101 Victorian oncologists wrote against euthanasia: "Assisted suicide is in conflict with the basic ethical principles and integrity of medical practice."
- It is a slippery slope and tragically Belgium is now euthanising children.
- It is utterly counter-productive to combating Australia's suicide problem.
- Euthanasia lobbyists often wrongly assert that the alternative in terminal cases is an agonising death, but the truth is that almost all pain can be mitigated with good palliative care.
- Doctors should kill the pain, not the patient.
- Euthanasia would be open to terrible manipulation and abuse. Cases of people being "euthanised" against their will have occurred.
- Euthanasia inherently devalues human life, particularly those who are elderly, sick or disabled.
- Like abortion, instead of protecting and assisting the most vulnerable in society, euthanasia would legalise their state-sanctioned killing.
To learn more about euthanasia and its inherent problems, click here.