UNADDRESSED ISSUES IN THE AUSTRALIAN EUTHANASIA DEBATE

I have researched and written on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for four decades while holding academic appointments in both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. In a series of decisions, which I believe future generations of Canadians will seriously regret, Canada has recently legalized these interventions. I have just left McGill and Montreal to take a position as Professor of Bioethics in the School of Medicine at The University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney and find myself immediately involved in the same debate about legalizing euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide as we had in Canada.