Beginning with the first, short-lived experiment with a law permitting euthanasia, which was conducted in the Northern Territory from
July 1996 to March 1997, there are thirty jurisdictions which have (or had) a
scheme permitting either euthanasia or assisted suicide or both.
For other jurisdictions considering whether to legalise assisted
suicide or euthanasia these jurisdictions can usefully be seen as a series of
experiments in attempting to create the much vaunted “safe” regime for assisted
suicide or euthanasia.
The data from each of these laboratory experiments in ending human
lives is patchy. Many of the regimes, despite claims of their “safety”, seem to
have been deliberately designed to minimise the collection and publication of
data to make it impossible ever to know how often things go wrong.
Nonetheless scrutiny of all the data that is available from these experiments leads
to the conclusion that they
are all – in various ways – fatally flawed.
Read the full analysis of each of these thirty fatally flawed experiments in euthanasia and assisted suicide at:
