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End Of Life Choice Calls On Terminally Ill Sufferers To Ask For Help - Despite Covid
Friday, 5 November 2021, 2:43 pm | End of Life Choice Society
Assisted dying in New Zealand becomes a legal choice from this coming Sunday, just as our health system is being increasingly overwhelmed by Covid. End-of-Life Choice Society President, Dr Mary Panko, is worried that terminally ill patients who want ... More >>
End of Life Choice Group Welcomes Yes Vote
Friday, 30 October 2020, 3:04 pm | End of Life Choice Society
The Yes vote in the End of Life Choice referendum brings a successful conclusion to a 42-year campaign to let terminally ill New Zealanders die peacefully at a time they choose. “At long last, the people’s wishes have been granted,” said Dr ... More >>
Yes For Compassion
Sunday, 21 June 2020, 11:24 am | End of Life Choice Society
The campaign for a Yes vote at this year’s referendum on legalising medical aid in dying has been boosted by the launch of a new organisation called Yes for Compassion, dedicated to educating voters on the issue. The End-of-Life Choice Society, which ... More >>
End-of-Life Choice Society is pleased
Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 8:54 pm | End of Life Choice Society
The End-of-Life Choice Society is pleased MPs have recognised that the majority of voters across a wide spectrum of society want a law change to allow the terminally ill to die free of intolerable pain and suffering, its president Dr Mary Panko said ... More >>
Congrats to Victoria on allowing people the choice to die
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 9:39 am | End of Life Choice Society
Today marks the coming into effect of Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017. From today, Victorians at the end of a terminal illness who meet strict eligibility criteria will be able to access assistance to die. More >>
Statement from End-of-Life Choice Society
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 3:41 pm | End of Life Choice Society
The End-of-Life Choice Society said Tuesday it was disappointed Parliament’s Justice Select Committee’s report into assisted dying was not bolder given the overwhelming support for a law change New Zealanders have consistently shown in reputable opinion ... More >>
MP is Lying Over Assisted Dying Bill
Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 1:59 pm | End of Life Choice Society
MP Maggie Barry has resorted to lying in her campaign to prevent a law change that would allow terminally ill patients to die peacefully in dignity with medical assistance, the End-of-Life Choice Society said on Tuesday. More >>
MP accused of being rude and aggressive in select committee
Thursday, 16 August 2018, 4:18 pm | End of Life Choice Society
The End-of-Life Choice Society has lodged a formal complaint about MP Maggie Barry, accusing her of being rude and aggressive in select committee hearings on assisted dying. More >>
Biased MP should resign as deputy chair of select committee
Monday, 13 August 2018, 11:34 am | End of Life Choice Society
A prominent campaigner for assisted dying said Monday MP Maggie Barry should resign as deputy chair of the parliamentary committee considering the issue because she is blatantly biased and discourteous to submitters. More >>
End-of-Life Choice Society on palliative care
Friday, 27 April 2018, 2:21 pm | End of Life Choice Society
Media release from the End-of-Life Choice Society of New Zealand There is ample evidence that palliative care does not provide a safe and pain-free death for all terminally ill New Zealanders, the authors of a book recently published by the End-of-Life ... More >>
The End-of-Life Choice Society wants an apology from police
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 12:12 pm | End of Life Choice Society
The End-of-Life Choice Society wants an apology from the police for an illegal roadside checkpoint and assurances that its campaign for a law change will not be targeted with unwarranted surveillance and intervention, its President Maryan Street said ... More >>
Delighted at majority vote on End of Life Choice Bill
Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 10:00 pm | End of Life Choice Society
The majority of New Zealanders will be delighted that Parliament has today agreed to send David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill to a select committee for consideration, said the President of the End-of-Life Choice Society, Maryan Street. More >>
Palliative Care Nurses have their heads in the sand
Monday, 7 August 2017, 9:49 am | End of Life Choice Society
Medical aid in dying (MAID) is going to come and Palliative Care organisations in New Zealand need to start taking their heads out of the sand and join forces in establishing a good integrated system for end-of-life care to benefit terminally ill patients, ... More >>
Cowardly Committee Report on Assisted Dying
Thursday, 3 August 2017, 9:58 am | End of Life Choice Society
The health select committee’s failure to make recommendations after its two-year inquiry into medically-assisted dying was cowardly and a wasted opportunity, Maryan Street, President of the End-of-Life Choice Society, said Thursday. More >>
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Assisted Dying
Sunday, 18 June 2017, 3:28 pm | End of Life Choice Society
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Assisted Dying Three-quarters of New Zealand voters support a law change to allow the terminally ill and people with irreversible unbearable suffering to be helped to end their lives peacefully, according to a new ... More >>
