Doctors in support of law reform for voluntary euthanasia

Woodruff, Roger K

doi:10.5694/mja13.10377

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To the Editor: The Doctors for Voluntary Euthanasia Choice want Australia to have enlightened euthanasia laws similar to those of the Netherlands.1 But a recent review of Dutch physician-assisted death (PAD) suggests that such practices are extremely difficult to control.2

Private Practice, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: rwoodruf@bigpond.net.au

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

1. Willoughby JO, Marr RG, Wendell-Smith CP; Doctors for Voluntary Euthanasia Choice. Doctors in support of law reform for voluntary euthanasia. Med J Aust 2013; 198: 190. <MJA full text>
2. Youngner SJ, Kimsma GK, editors. Physician-assisted death in perspective: assessing the Dutch experience. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
3. Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD, Brinkman-Stoppelenburg A, Penning C, et al. Trends in end-of-life practices before and after the enactment of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2010: a repeated cross-sectional survey. Lancet 2012; 380: 908-915.

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