Every day too many Queenslanders along with their families and carers, experience the pain, the distress and the struggle of untreatable or terminal illness.
Each month on average, at least seven Queenslanders who are suffering from a terminal, or chronic or degenerative condition commits suicide.
The 2020 Queensland Parliamentary Report into Voluntary Assisted Dying recommends that Voluntary Assisted Dying be legalised and be accessible to Queenslanders, with specific safeguards in place for patients and medical practitioners.
We call on all MPs to commit to supporting Voluntary Assisted Dying for Queenslanders.
Who's signing
Margaret Anne Olohan
To continue to allow the will of the minority who oppose VAD to take precedence over my desire to have the right to make a choice for VAD is preposterous.
Too many are forced to linger on for days or even a few weeks in an existence of extreme and intolerable pain and suffering when palliative treatment becomes insufficient. That is barbaric torture.
I am an adult, l am sane, l demand the right to choose an assisted death should l ever be in the desperate position to need to make that choice of my own free will.
Jan