JON STANHOPE.
IT was pleasing to see the Legislative Assembly achieve consensus on the question of the right of the ACT to legislate on euthanasia.
Jon Stanhope.
My personal views on euthanasia are equivocal. For a number of years, I was president of the ACT Palliative Care Society and my wife Robyn was a palliative care specialist nurse for just on 15 years.
My close involvement with palliative care has undoubtedly influenced my thinking. Not just because of the insights it provided into the impact that palliative care can have on one’s quality of life, but also as a window into the depravity that some (admittedly and mercifully only a few) people are capable of, including people ostensibly “caring for” an incapacitated or terminally ill family member.