Euthanasia: Mercy or murder? The adequacy of australian and international law.

With the huge advancement of medical technology during the past 200 years, most people are now living longer, healthier, lives. However these discoveries also put before society an ethical and moral dilemma. The advance in medical technology currently allows us to keep people alive; even if their quality of life is so poor they wish to die. With growing outcries from the Australian public, it has become imperative for old laws to be revised and euthanasia …

…amp;gt;Humphry, D, Euthanasia research and guidance organisation 7/3/2006 Tread Carefully When You Help to Die Assisted Suicide Laws around the World [Internet] Http://www.assistedsuicide.org/suicide_ laws.html 7.<Tab/>Life Site 7/3/2006 Dutch Euthanasia Doctor Admits to Killing 4 Newborns with Lethal Injections [Internet] http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05042706.html 8.<Tab/>Nitschke, P, Exit international 14/3/06 Nancy Crick [Internet] http://www.exit international.net/nancy_crick.htm.