Jos Hall watched with interest this week as the highly charged issue of death as mercy played out in Brisbane’s Supreme Court via an attempted murder trial. It so easily could have been her.
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Subscriber only As most Australians look to the new year ahead, Carina woman Tanya Battel s goal is to give suffering Queenslanders, including herself, the opportunity to die peacefully, on their own terms. The 57-year-old mother of two wants a perscription for peace of mind after battling chronic cancer for the past 25 years, and after she was told it was incurable in 2016, had made plans to take her own life by legal assisted suicide at a time before her quality of life deteriorates. She initially considered packing up everything and moving down to Victoria when voluntary euthanasia legislation was introduced there, so that she could meet the residency requirement.