"I’m Not 'Better Off Dead': The Problem With Assisted Suicide Legislation"

Robin Eames

http://junkee.com/assisted-suicide-legislation-euthanasia/133335

by ROBIN EAMES  3 NOVEMBER 2017

Last week the Victorian Lower House passed an assisted suicide bill (euphemistically labelled a “voluntary assisted dying” bill) that has received significant opposition from disabled activists and palliative care bodies. The bill went to the Upper House, ironically, on Halloween and is currently being debated. A favourable Upper House vote seemed inevitable but some startling last-minute MP decisions have made the vote more precarious.

I am terminally ill and degeneratively disabled. Under the Victorian bill I would qualify for accessing assisted suicide as soon as it is available. And sorry, but that’s bullshit....