Submission on a Review of Queensland's Guardianship Laws to the Queensland Law Reform Commission. It involves: Introduction; Special health matters (Q 4-2 (d)); Removal of tissue for donation; Termination of a pregnancy of an adult; Participation by the adult in special medical research or experimental health care; Appointment of guardians by parents (Q 8-1); Advanced health directives : non-compliance by health providers (Q 11.21, 11.23); Withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining measures (Q 12-1 – 12-27); Endnotes.
Submission on Suicide in Australia to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Department of the Senate. It involves: Introduction; Suicide promotion and instruction on the Internet; Euthanasia as a form of suicide; Suicide and cannabis and other drugs; Men’s suicide and diovorce; Endnotes.
Submission on the Adequacy and Appropriateness of Prevention and Treatment Services for Alcohol and Illicit Drug Problems in Western Australia to the Education and Health Standing Committee. It involves: harm minimisation or a drug free society?; Road to Recovery - 2003; the winnable war on drugs - 2007; The Swedish model; abandoning harm minimisation; cannabis; prevalence of cannabis use; harms of cannabis use; cannabis infringement notice scheme; government policy; naltrexone.
Submission on the Dying with Dignity Bill 2009 to the Joint Standing Committee on Community Development Parliament House. It involves: Introduction; Who may be assisted to die?; Assistance to die; Laws permitting euthanasia or physician assisted suicide in other jurisdictions; United Kingdom; Canada; United States; New York Task Force on Life and the Law; Oregon; The Netherlands; Australia; Northern Territory; Terminal illness and further treatment options; “Severe Pain or Suffering”; No clinical depression; Senate Committee; Victoria; Conclusion and recommendations.
Comments on Draft National Protocol for Donation after Cardiac Death. It involves: REcommendation 1: As the draft protocol proposes that death be certified based on inappropriate criteria and as amending the protocol to require the use of appropriate criteria would make donation after cardiac death unworkable, the draft protocol should be withdrawn and an immediate halt should be called to donation after cardiac death; Recommendation 2: As ante mortem interventions may be harmful to the patient and do not comply with the “best interest’ test required by guardianship law in several states they should not be permitted. Until the patient is actually dead nothing may be done to harm the patient, to hasten death or to intervene medically or surgically other than for the patient’s benefit...
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