SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Attitudes and Arguments in the Voluntary Assisted Dying Debate in Australia: What Are They and How Have They Evolved Over Time?
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- Suicide prevention in the context of ineligibility for voluntary assisted dying: emerging insights.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Changing contexts of death and dying: Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and voluntary assisted dying legislation on death literacy in Australia.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Co-creating end-of-life choices education: A process description of a program to explore community death-literacy in preparation for voluntary assisted dying.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Exploring perspectives of Scottish medical students on the proposed 'Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland)' Bill.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
- Questions regarding medication-related issues raised by legislators in the Indian parliament, 2017-2024.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Cross-sectional survey on public attitudes and factors related to physician-assisted dying in Taiwan.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Voluntary Assisted Dying/Euthanasia: Will This Have an Impact on Cancer Care in Future Years?Current treatment options in oncology · 2023Review
- Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in Mental Disorders: Ethical Positions in the Debate between Proportionality, Dignity, and the Right to Die.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Implementing voluntary assisted dying laws in healthcare: Exploring beliefs to identify implementation hurdles.Research in nursing & health · 2023Article
- Japan should initiate the discussion on voluntary assisted dying legislation now.BMC medical ethics · 2023Article
- Media coverage of Belgium's first criminal case concerning euthanasia for psychiatric patients: A content analysis of Flemish newspapers and magazines.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
This paper provides a broad discussion about voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Australia. The discussion examines the history of the VAD debate in Australia and whether public support for VAD and the arguments that have provided the framework for the VAD debate have evolved over time. This seems a prudent time to have such a discussion, given the very recent rush by all Australian states to bring about or attempt to bring about VAD legislation. This rush, inexplicably perhaps, comes after decades of attempted but failed progress in the legalisation of VAD in Australia. The authors attempted to undertake a systematic literature review for this paper, but the paucity of academic research and the lack of consistent terminology in this area made such a search untenable. Instead, the authors examined parliamentary documentation and then widened the search via the sources found within this documentation. The examination of available data showed that VAD has enjoyed significant public support from Australians over time and that the arguments in the VAD debate in Australia have been consistent over time.
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