Voluntary euthanasia is now legal in Victoria

NEWS: Terminally-ill Victorians can now legally ask their doctors for lethal drugs under Australia's only euthanasia laws.

Image of a health worker's hand wearing a glove holding a patient's hand

Source: Image obtained by SBS News

The state's voluntary assisted dying scheme come into effect Wednesday.

Under the scheme, terminally-ill Victorian adults in intolerable pain and with less than six months to live, or 12 months for neurodegenerative diseases, and who meet 68 safeguards can request their doctor's help in dying.

You can read the full version of this story in English on SBS News .


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Published 19 June 2019 8:44am
Updated 19 June 2019 8:51am
By AAP-SBS
Presented by Tanu Attajarusit
Source: AAP, SBS


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