Legal euthanasia 'could prolong lives' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The architect of the Northern Territory's overturned euthanasia legislation says denying people the right to die is forcing them to take their own lives when they are still relatively healthy.
Former chief minister Marshall Perron spoke at a public forum on the issue in Darwin last night in a bid to rally support for a new bill, currently before the Senate in Canberra.
If passed, the private members bill would allow the territories to again pass laws legalising voluntary euthanasia.
Mr Perron says many sick people take their own lives when they are still relatively healthy because they fear their illness will make them incapable of doing it later.
It is time to stop torturing and negating humans the right of choosing voluntary euthanasia when their quality of life does not have any hope to improve.
The right to end their life or not is a human right, and we should provide laws to allow those you choose to do so.
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