Australian Broadcasting Corporation
You may think you have to make some pretty tough decisions at work, but it doesn’t get much tougher than choosing whether to help someone die.
Doctors are grappling with their personal and professional beliefs about death and their role in it as politicians in Victoria consider assisted dying laws.
Opinion polls show the majority of people support voluntary assisted dying, but those who would have to administer it are divided.
Polls suggest around 75 per cent of people support assisted dying for the terminally ill, but only 40 per cent of doctors agreed in a recent survey by the Australian Medical Association. . . [Full text]