EUTHANASIA FYI: How to navigate the voluntary assisted ‘dying’ process

  Voluntary assisted “dying” is to get some pre-publicity Two VAD “navigators” are to be ensconced in the Peter Mac The Alfred Hospital is to dispense the poisons statewide The drugs administered give no guarantee of a peaceful death When the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Act was debated, it was presented as a private choice made by the individual patient, who is facing death within months and suffering intolerably, in consultation with their doctor. Now it seems assisted suicide is being institutionalised. Ahead of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act commencing operation in June, an assisted suicide advice or enabling…