Coercion, Not Choice, in End-of-Life-'Choice' Laws

Are we getting the balance right between individual choice and community responsibility? Or is our right to life being dismissed as an inconvenient expense, traded in for a cheaper 'right to die'?

The latest euthanasia report has strengthened the resolve of civil liberties groups to continue fighting for genuine free choice. PILLAR advocate Arian Tashakkori exposes the contradiction in proposed expansions to the End of Life Choice law, which would leave medical professionals and vulnerable patients wide open to coercion. He tells Andrew Urquhart that underlying the ethical risks is the glaring blindspot that, without providing robust palliative care services or other funded solutions for suffering, there is no real choice at all.

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