Tag: euthanasia

New finding: More doctors and nurses needed to work in palliative care. AUSTRALIA has only half the number of palliative ...

Concerning: Some of the final submissions to the Queensland Law Reform Commission raise complex issues about the bill’s legal framework ...

Concerns: “But the trouble is, people are fearful, whoever they are, Catholic or not, they’re petrified that they’re going to ...

Death push: Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was victorious in the state election. QUEENSLAND is on a ...

Tragedy: “In the future, at least sometimes, my friends in palliative care will feel very sad when ...

Standing up: Augustinian Father Robert Greenup (left), parish priest at St Thomas of Villanova, Mareeba, and who ...

Bishop Tim Harris: “It goes completely against the grain – anything to do with suicide, and certainly ...

Standing firm: “Nobody is morally compelled to suffer unbearable pain, nobody should feel like a burden, and ...

Dignity: “Nobody is morally compelled to suffer unbearable pain, nobody should feel like a burden, and nobody ...

Right to life: A patient is pictured in a file photo chatting with a nun at Rosary ...

Concerns: “Experience overseas indicates the real possibility that once euthanasia laws are passed, no matter how tight ...

"The church is convinced of the necessity to reaffirm as definitive teaching that euthanasia is a crime against human life ...

Untimely deaths: Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board reported 124 deaths by assisted suicide and euthanasia during ...

Euthanasia: Both One Nation and Katter’s Australian Party say they won’t join moves to legalise voluntary assisted ...

Troubling: An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the ...

Responsibility: "It is absolutely critical that the government’s final response to the committee reports is informed by the views and ...

Troubling: An unidentified man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and who refused to eat sleeps peacefully the day before dying in ...

Call to care: “Real compassion for those approaching the end of their lives in North Queensland should start with more ...

Untimely deaths: Six months after Victoria passed euthanasia laws, the state recorded more than 52 people ended their lives under ...

Life is sacred: Townsville Bishop Tim Harris has spoken out strongly against euthanasia. TOWNSVILLE Bishop Tim Harris has spoken out ...

Called to serve: Joshua Whitehead and Brendan Gormley lie prostrate during their ordination Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral on May ...

Euthanasia pressure: “But the response to this suffering should not be euthanasia: rather we should be putting far more of our ...

Churches speak: Anglican Archbishop Philip Aspinall, Anglican North Queensland Bishop Keith Joseph and Brisbane Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge at the ...

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 ...