Dr Phillip Nitschke
John Wang-Fitzpatrick
"The struggle towards adequate choices for Australians facing end of life reality continues. Palliative Care and Euthanasia are separate entities with separate ethics, but both entities and both ethics are noble, just and worthy.
One cannot meet the needs of the other. Whilst they are separate care entities, neither by itself is adequate to address the issues that people have and will continue to have at the end of their mortal lives here.
Often, when the spectre of Euthanasia rises in the public consciousness, the knee-jerk reaction of Governments is to put funding into Palliative Care and hope the issue goes away. This is a form of malicious 'abandonment' for the many people who desire and seek Euthanasia Services.
Both Palliative Care and Euthanasia are legitimate, honourable, advanced human services and it is not acceptable that Government deals with these issues with squalid socially destructive leger demain trickery ." John W-F
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