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In article <5h0890$h7d$1@euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au>, d-moss@adfa.oz.au wrote:

> Euthanasia Lobby exposes RTI Dangers
> 
> "Recent publicity from the Australian pro-euthanasia lobby, intended
> to win Senators emotions, may backfire boosting support for the
> anti-euthanasia Andrews Bill."
>  
> "The publicity campaign featured pleas from patients who have all the
> necessary paperwork signed, but are not yet ready to end their lives.
> Euthanasia advocates have been using letters, and even voice
> recordings from patients to apply emotional pressure on  the eve of
> the Andrews Bill vote."
> 
> "Instead they have exposed some fundamental flaws in the world's first
> euthanasia law, the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill
> Act 1995."
> 
> "All of these patients convinced their doctor they were experiencing
> pain, suffering and/or distress to an unacceptable extent. This is the
> first and most basic requirement under the RTI Act. "
> 
> "Yet in the letters and recordings in the publicity, the patients
> indicate they had no intention of ending this suffering in the near
> future, unless forced to do so by the impending Senate vote."
> 
> "The patients are clearly willing to accept their level of pain,
> suffering or distress at this time, so the question must be asked:
> 'why did their doctor sign the paperwork in the first place?'"

A person may know that they want to avail themselves of the NT law
and be in (some) pain - but not want to make a mad dash for the end
right now.   

Quit twisting things David.... It does no good to your cause!

Yiet