LIFE ISSUES Woman’s suicide wrongly used to justify euthanasia*

The suicide death late last year of an elderly Victorian woman is being used by euthanasia advocates to push their agenda. The suicide on November 26, 2014, of 86-year-old Dorothy Hookey, a resident of Spring Gully, near Bendigo in country Victoria, was recently reported in the Melbourne daily newspaper, The Age. Director of HOPE, Paul Russell It said: “So when years of intolerable arthritic pain finally took its toll last year, putting her at imminent risk of being hospitalised…

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