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    euthanasia or assisted suicide in Australia are matters for state and territory governments. As of June 2024 all states and the Australian Capital Territory...
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    It has been referred to as physician-assisted suicide (PAS), assisted suicide, assisted dying or medical aid in dying. This medical practice is an end-of-life...
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    "physician-assisted suicide" (PAS), "physician-assisted dying", "physician-assisted death", "assisted death", and "medical aid in dying" (MAiD). Assisted suicide...
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    in NSW will need to do before they end their life if voluntary assisted dying becomes legal". ABC News. "Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Australia"...
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  • established. Suicide bags were first used during the 1990s. The method was mainly developed in North America.[citation needed] Self-administered and assisted suicides...
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  • by police or law-enforcement-assisted suicide, is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately behaves in a threatening manner with intent...
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  • Suicide tourism, or euthanasia tourism, is the practice of potential suicide candidates travelling to a jurisdiction to die by suicide or assisted suicide...
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  • to assisted suicide and euthanasia under John Finnis, an Australian legal scholar opposed to assisted suicide. In The Future of Assisted Suicide and...
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  • intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering, while assisted suicide, also known as physician-assisted suicide, is suicide committed with the...
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  • assisted dying. In 2014, a total of 752 assisted suicides were performed (330 men, 422 women), compared to 1,029 non-assisted suicides (754 men, 275 women);...
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  • According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the age standardised death rate for suicide in Australia, for the year 2019, was 13.1 deaths per 100...
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  • understanding that a person with a terminal illness, or in incurable pain has access to assisted suicide. The question of who, if anyone, may be empowered to...
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  • suicide method is any means by which a person may choose to end their life. Suicide attempts do not always result in death, and a non-fatal suicide attempt...
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  • request, in order to relieve them of suffering. Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) have been the focus of intense debate in the 21st...
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    legalising euthanasia or assisted dying. Before the federal override occurred, three people died through physician assisted suicide under the legislation...
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    Sarco pod (redirect from Sarco Suicide Pod)
    Switzerland for assisted dying. This review has been completed and we're very pleased with the result "Meet The Elon Musk Of Assisted Suicide, Whose Machine...
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    Dignitas is a Swiss non-profit organization providing physician-assisted suicide to members with terminal illness or severe physical or mental illness...
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  • Assisted dying (sometimes referred to as assisted death, aid in dying or help to die) has been defined as the involvement of healthcare professionals...
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    Pegasos Swiss Association (category Assisted suicide)
    based in Basel, Switzerland with a minimal-bureaucracy approach to assisted suicide. (They also used to have an office in Melbourne, Australia, which...
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    in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, also spelled MAID) and it first became legal along with assisted suicide...
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    life. The Northern Territory of Australia briefly had legal physician-assisted suicide from 1996 to 1997. In India, suicide was illegal until 2014, and surviving...
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    mental illness. Euthanasia is distinct from assisted suicide, which may be legal in certain other jurisdictions. In May 2012, the Argentine Senate (Senado...
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  • non-profit organisation advocating legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide. It was previously known as the Voluntary Euthanasia Research Foundation...
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    Suicide by hanging is the intentional killing of oneself (suicide) via suspension from an anchor-point such as an overhead beam or hook, by a rope or...
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  • Australian drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House, hanging John Hicklenton (2010), British comics artist, assisted suicide the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland...
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    male, 6.6 female). Not included are 742 assisted suicides (320 men, 422 women); most of the assisted suicides concerned elderly people suffering from...
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  • designed to help terminally ill people die by voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide without prolonged pain. They may be operated by a second party, such...
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  • Euthanasia in the Netherlands is regulated by the "Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act" which was passed in 2001 and...
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    Philip Nitschke (category Euthanasia in Australia)
    Board of Australia. Nitschke has been referred to in the media as "Dr Death" or "the Elon Musk of assisted suicide". Nitschke was born in 1947 in Ardrossan...
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    Jack Kevorkian (category Assisted suicide in the United States)
    right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that...
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