A HIGHLY-experienced chest doctor says wrongful deaths will occur under Queensland’s proposed euthanasia laws, due to misdiagnosis. Thoracic physician, Dr ...
Death push: Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was victorious in the state election. QUEENSLAND is on a precarious path to legalise ...
Standing up: Augustinian Father Robert Greenup (left), parish priest at St Thomas of Villanova, Mareeba, and who visits remote communities ...
Leading voice: “Sadly, in Queensland, we have a sector in need of urgent reform, one that must have the capacity ...
Dignity: “Nobody is morally compelled to suffer unbearable pain, nobody should feel like a burden, and nobody should feel that ...
Right to life: A patient is pictured in a file photo chatting with a nun at Rosary Hill Home, a ...
Euthanasia: Both One Nation and Katter’s Australian Party say they won’t join moves to legalise voluntary assisted dying for the ...
Responsibility: "It is absolutely critical that the government’s final response to the committee reports is informed by the views and ...
Untimely deaths: Six months after Victoria passed euthanasia laws, the state recorded more than 52 people ended their lives under ...
Churches speak: Anglican Archbishop Philip Aspinall, Anglican North Queensland Bishop Keith Joseph and Brisbane Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge at the ...
Aged care caution: Queensland parliament told it needs to add another $200 million for palliative care. A DIRE lack of ...
Submission: "Those in our community and in our families who are really unwell or in the final stages of life ...
Death machine: The space-like suicide capsule called Sarco – short for “sarcophagus”. IN 1996 Philip Nitschke tinkered in his shed ...
Do no harm: “We cannot train doctors to heal and then ask them to kill. I, for one, cannot support ...
Aged care: “This is shocking because the life expectancy for many of these individuals will be less than two years.” ...
Vulnerable: Doctors in Queensland have warned of how vulnerable older people could feel pressured if euthanasia was legalised. DOCTORS have ...
Mutual giftedness: “In our conversations about VAD, may we remember the ways of our First Peoples. Their stories reach out ...
Understanding euthanasia: Bioethicist Dr Ray Campbell. Photo: Libby Blom. I REMEMBER having a conversation with an intensive care doctor who ...
Dr Phillip Good: "Faced with a terminal illness, in a situation that cannot be changed, it takes real courage to ...
Submission: “How well a society cares for its vulnerable, weak and unwell members is, we believe, to be a measure ...
A SUBMISSION by Queensland’s six Catholic bishops calling for the protection of human dignity is among hundreds received by a ...
Humanity at its best: “In moments of deepest suffering love finds its deepest expression. It’s the faithful wife at the ...
Life issue: The Health Issues Centre installed a life-like model of a dying woman at Southbank, Melbourne, recently, to promote ...
By Terry Lees “I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will...
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