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Articles from Australia

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• Mercy killing, Rodney Syme, 1 June 2005
• Abstract for 13th International Symposium on ALS, Rodney Syme, 1 June 2005
• Common Arguments against Voluntary Euthanasia - and Some Answers, June 2004
• Supreme Court Decision on BWV, Rodney Syme, June 2003
• Implications of the Refusal of Tube Feeding, Rodney Syme, June 2003
• DWDV Submission re the Medical Treatment Act - June 2003
• Supreme Court case of BWV, May 2003
• Dr Francis Macnab - Address to DWDV AGM, 23 February 2003
• Presentation to VTCA - COMVIEW Conference 2002, Rodney Syme, November 2002
• Belgium Legalises Euthanasia, Barbara Churches, September 2002
• Medical Enduring Power of Attorney, Barbara Churches, August 2002
• The Difference Between Terminal and Hopeless Illness, Extract from Newsletter, July 2002
• Nancy Crick by Rodney Syme, June 2002
• Nancy Crick - Joint Media Release from the Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Societies, June 2002
• Statement on Assisted Suicide by Rodney Syme, May 2002
• Shirley Nolan, April 2002
• Paper presented to the 8th National Conference of Suicide Prevention Australia by Rodney Syme, 9 April 2001
• Norma Hall by Rodney Syme, February 2001
• Position Statement of Palliative Care Australia Inc., 1999
• Euthanasia - a technical solution: the politics and evolution of the Suicide Pill, by Dr Philip Nitschke, keynote address given at the 12th International Conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, 12-15 October 1998, Zurich, Switzerland (no link available)
• Religion and Voluntary Euthanasia, by Rodney Syme, The Age: 13 April 1998
• A Tale of Two Deaths by Rodney Syme, FRACS, March 1997
• Reaction to a Study of End-of-Life Decisions in Australia, by Professor Peter Baume and Associate Professor Helga Kuhse, Medical Observer: 21 March 1997 (no link available)
• Euthanasia - the Australian Law in an International Context: Part 2 - Active Voluntary Euthanasia, by Natasha Cica,Consultant, Law and Public Administration Group, Research Paper 4 1996-97, Australian Parliamentary Library
• The Melbourne Declaration on Physician Assisted Dying, written by nine doctors attending the 11th International Conference of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies, held in Melbourne (15-18 October,1996)
• The Limits of Palliative Care, by Dr Roger Hunt, 10 October 1996
• Active Voluntary Euthanasia, Morality and the Law by Helga Kuhse, PhD, and Peter Singer, MA, B Phil, Journal of Law & Medicine, Vol.3, No.2, November 1995 (no link available)
• Extracts from Anna Knight's Letters, as published in The Age, 25 March 1995

• An Open Letter to the Premier, from seven Victorian doctors, 24 March 1995
• The Intent to Kill, by Kay Koetsier, DWDV REPORT,November 1994
• Euthanasia, by Helga Kuhse, PhD, Bioethics News, Vol.11, No.4, July 1992

Articles from Overseas

• EUTHANASIA: can we make sense of the issues? by Professor Roger Higgs, Director, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Editorial from Otago Bioethics Report, Vol.4, No.3, October 1995
• Evelyn Martens - Not Guilty
• Press Release: Need for Alternative Means of Dying by Hemlock Society USA, November 16 1999
• Kevorkian and Assisted Death in the United States - editorial, British Medical Journal, 10 April 1999, Vol 318, pp953-954.
• Two Legal Options to end Terminal Suffering raise Legal and Ethical Concerns,Timothy E. Quill, M.D., of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, N.Y., and colleagues, Journal of the American Medical Association, 278:2099-2104,17 December 1997
• The Rule of Double Effect - A Critique of Its Role in End-of-Life Decisions, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol.337, No.24, 11 December 1997
• The Bell Tolls for a Constitutional Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide, New England Journal of Medicine, 9 October 1997, Vol 337, No 15
• Editorial, New England Journal of Medicine, 28 November 1996, Vol 335, No 22