Euthanasia question needs wider discussion

Posted on October 8, 2010 
Filed under Opinion

“Australians are overwhelmingly in favour of euthanasia. Who can resist the will of the people? So goes the pro-death argument for this sweeping social change. A much quoted 2009 survey, commissioned by the pro-euthanasia group Dying with Dignity, reports 85 per cent support for the practice. As is always the case, support is more muted among the over-65s: the prospect of death, it turns out, does concentrate the mind…”

– Andrew Cameron writes this opinion-piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald.