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Voluntary Euthanasia is a human right
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Name: Robert Anthony Jones
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Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: South Australia
Time: 1997-04-08 06:11:00
Comments: I am appalled at the Senate decision. Is this democracy? I'm going to change my voting allegiance but to whom? Or do I have to spoil my vote? Why do we need a law in any case? This is a simple regulatory matter for a minority. This is an abrogation of individual rights. Do we have to have a 'test case' as in the case that led to the 'McNaughton Rules' for abortion?
Name: Jeana Kernot
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Sydney
Time: 1997-04-05 23:52:00
Comments: Shocked and stunned at the governments decision. I shall be sure to take my local members vote into consideration at the earliest possible voting opportunity.
Name: geoff (no email address given)
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: adelaide
Time: 1997-03-30 03:36:00
Comments: the "unrepresentative swill" of the senate have again shown their detatchment from the australian public and their willingness to be influenced by extremist lobby groups [the lyons forum]. I will remember the senators who voted for the NEO "andrew's" bill and no matter which political persuasion they are aligned to I will endeavour to have them voted out! I WILL EVEN VOTE FOR AMANDA VANSTONE!!!!
Name: adam
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: adelaide
Time: 1997-03-30 03:23:00
Comments: Very disgusted that for a Pseudo DEMOCRACY, the narrow minded SENATORS were so removed from the mainstream view of their electorate (state), that they chose to vote for Bills based on their self serving interests only. WHERE WAS THE REFERENDUM????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Name: Alex Speed
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Dundee Scotland
Time: 1997-03-29 16:18:00
Comments: I deplore the recent decision of the Australian Senate. I wish you success in your fight to legalise euthenasia
Name: Patrick Leneghan
Website:
Referred by: From Geocities
From: Melbourne Vic Australia
Time: 1997-03-29 06:03:00
Comments: Isn't there a lot of irrational rubbish being spewed out by pro-euthanasia activists ? They appear to be very confused about these issues. Firstly, no one has suggested that they cannot die :->nor if they as individuals wish to die before their natural time by suicide, thats their business I suppose. BUT, when they demand that 'putting human beings down' [like animals] should be sanctioned by the State that's another matter. If they then demand that the process become part of the health system, well I reckon they should be shown very little sympathy. [I really do apologise for the crudeness of the above to those who may be experiencing or have recently experienced the death of a loved one] It's a pity more energy couldn't be given to fighting for a decent health system, the end of queues on hospital waiting lists etc.
Name: Tony Burke (no email address given)
Website: Sorry Tony - you left no address for us to reply - Click here to read
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Euthanasia-No
Time: 1997-03-29 05:48:00
Comments: Dear Dr Nitschke, I have just read Des Carne's analysis of the submissions to the Senate Inquiry and am disturbed by the inference that the one page submissions failed to register a well formed argument and were probably the result of a church based campaign. I am trying to recall the precise details, but didn't your submission only run for a single page? Regards Tony
Name: Helen Darville
Website: Helen Darville's Homepage
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Queensland, Australia
Time: 1997-03-28 06:10:00
Comments: Someone made the comment that the supporters of voluntary euthanasia have "lost the first round" but "have started the ball rolling." I think that about sums it up. Like many people, I'm feeling poorly represented at the moment. I'm also hoping that Andrews and his Christian Crazies pay for their rather cavalier treatment of the express wishes of the Australian people at the ballot box. I'd made the mistake of thinking that the theocratic piffle Howard & co dress up as "liberalism" had no place in Australia. Just goes to show that even a cynic like me can be guilty of extreme idealism. There's a bumper sticker you often see in the US that, for me, sums up Andrews and his cronies in the Lyons Forum: "the moral majority are neither". Stay tuned for Lady Liberty's Revenge, folks.
Name: Cheryl North
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Remotest NT
Time: 1997-03-27 23:45:00
Comments: It bemuses me as a humane humanand asa Territorian how our polititians can be so illogical and so unreasonable. There is a grwing groundswell of support for people to be able to make their own life (and death ) decisions as they chose, It is distressing that there are so many in politics who think that Australians ( and Territorians will accept UNrepresentative govt. Their days are numbered
Name: Diana Andrews
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Referred by: Net Search
From: Sydney, Australia
Time: 1997-03-27 20:52:00
Comments: Despite the bagging teachers et al. are continually getting about literacy ( or the lack of it! ), it would appear that " the mob " has a greater understanding of the meaning of the word " voluntary " than do our elected representatives. Decisions about one's life are basically the only thing we have in this world, and I am sick and tired of being foeced to live, and presumably die according to the often dubious consciences of those elected to govern us.
Name: Helen Lewis
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Burringbar in NSW
Time: 1997-03-26 23:31:00
Comments: Thank you for all the hard work you have put in fighting for the rights of the terminally ill. So much for pollies being the peoples representatives and so much for the conscience vote where pollies voted for their political future rather than the issue. Unfortunately there are still those in society who believe that they have the right to regulate our personal lives according to their own particular beliefs. But we will keep fighting won't we? My mother died of pancreatic cancer a year ago and she was a life long supporter of euthanasia.
Name: Martin Bruekers
Website: Northern Territory University
Referred by: Net Search
From: Darwin
Time: 1997-03-26 20:57:00
Comments: I am sorry I can be of no financial benefit, but a request for help will not go unnoticed or supported. The "Andrews Bill" has already caused a rift between myself and my father (a supporter of the "White Australia Policy") but my wife and children support me. I am therefore willing to make an active stand against our undemocratic government. Please email or phone if I can be of assistance (in the book). Martin.
Name: David Moss
Website: Living in Australia (without Deadly Deliverance)
Referred by: From Geocities
From: Australia - where killing patients is against the law
Time: 1997-03-26 17:51:00
Comments: David should avail himself of the opportunity to argue his case.I did take the opportunity to argue my case.
Unfortunately Des must be too busy to post my letter up
in the forum, or more likely too embarrassed.I eagerly await the advent of integrity on the
forum pages.
Name: John J. Todd
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: 1/44 Brisbane St TOOWONG QLD. 4066
Time: 1997-03-26 05:53:00
Comments: I feel very strongly about voluntary euthanasia and am happy to assist to get the views of the majority of Australians accepted in the parliament of this country.
Name: ICHIYA, Yoshihiko
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Tokyo, JAPAN
Time: 1997-03-26 01:05:00
Comments: I am a staff producer for NHK-TV(Japan Broadcasting Co), now trying to gather some materials concerning euthanasia in NT. I hoped to find: 1. homepage(URLs) for Dr. Philip NItschke, 2. last statement made by Janet Mills before her death (which I couldn't locate in your URL now) If you can help me get the further information to the above, I hope you may e-mail me at yichiya@nc.nhk.or.jp
Name: Andrew Grogan
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: NSW
Time: 1997-03-26 00:29:00
Comments: I have a PhD and consider myslef a humane and understanding man. It is a great mystery to me how other people can presume to rule the private and personal *lives* of others. If the care for 'life' was equalled by charity and care from these hypocritical and sancitimonious ignoramuses, I would listen to what they said. But they pronounce on the lives of others, and feel no obligation to help the lives of others. Logicall flawed, unable to step outside of their sociall induced prejudice, and unaware of the sanctity of the individual, I wish for them to suffers as they will make others suffer.
Name: Pamela Ditton
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Alice Springs
Time: 1997-03-25 04:59:00
Comments: You have lost this round - but the ball is rolling all round Australia. Voluntary euthanasia is on the agenda. Congratulations on your hard work. Pam
Name: Pat Milham
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Adelaide South Aust.
Time: 1997-03-25 01:03:00
Comments: The 24th March 1997 was a sad day for Freedom of choice and Democracy in Australia !
Name: Blair Donaldson
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Victoria
Time: 1997-03-24 18:27:00
Comments: The gutless, compassionless senators of this country should hang their heads in shame.
Name: Duncan Carling-Rodgers
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Brisbane, Queensland
Time: 1997-03-24 14:34:00
Comments: So sorry they lacked the guts to overturn Andrews. Don't give up.
Name: D.J.S.
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Sydney-sider living in the USA
Time: 1997-03-23 18:22:00
Comments: I have used this page and the on-line Australian newspapers to try to keep up to date with this very important topic. It is important not just for the Northern Territoreans, not just for Australians but for Humanity. I thank you for your service. At the turn of this century, the people of the Commonwealth of Australia popularly introduced radical ideas like the right for women to vote, the right to a minimum wage and the right to a pension on retirement. They were ideas yet to be embraced by the rest of the world. Ideas which were looked on by the European press of the time as "democratic experiments by a youthful and dynamic country". Almost 100 years later the Commonwealth of Australia remains a youthful and dynamic country with a people prepared to embrace radical change. Almost a century later popular opinion continues to want to set a global example to increase Humanity's quality of life, but this time there is no democracy, no political representation to make that change law. It is a dark day indeed.
Name: jeremy butler
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: brisbane
Time: 1997-03-22 04:00:00
Comments: All citizens deserve the right to make decisions about the manner of their death assuming they are of sound mind and their judgement is not impaired.To deny this is an abuse of human rights.
Name: David. Mills
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Naracoorte South Australia
Time: 1997-03-22 03:51:00
Comments: Hi, Philip, Pull your chin up and hang in there, top job. Say hi to Triston for me,Best regards, David Mills And all the very best from Dagmar & Barrie, Guys you are doing well, and the page is looking absolutely great, Des I will email you soon, just to busy at the moment, Dagmar
Name: Heather Mackenzie-Ross
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Adelaide Sth Australia
Time: 1997-03-20 01:57:00
Comments: like the page. excellent way to keep informed
Name: Matthew Mason
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Canberra
Time: 1997-03-19 19:58:00
Comments: Members of parliament are elected to to represent the people of of their division not themselves. Our constitution definately needs some serious reform. A refferendum on this issue is acceptable, but my life are mine, nobody elses. To die or not to die should be a fundamental right, just like free speech.
Name: Wes Scott
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Brisbane
Time: 1997-03-19 14:27:00
Comments: Keep the faith. This battle will not be over because some sheltered politicians in their comfortable world vote our personal rights away. This issue needs to go to a 'peoples' vote.
Name: Cameron Crouch
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Brisbane
Time: 1997-03-19 05:45:00
Comments: You are doing a very good and worthwhile job ... the right to die should be no different from the right to life
Name: Eric Hare
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Melbourne
Time: 1997-03-18 03:22:00
Comments: Thankyou for your effort to advertise and inform people about an issue that is close to the heart of the morjority of people. Why don't you put a mail link to the Federal Senators from this site (to make it easy to communicate ideas to them). Also would the please advertise which federal parliament members vote on this issue. I believe the world should know how they represent 'their' people. Eric Hare
Name: ROBERT ROSER
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: MOSS VALE AUSTRALIA
Time: 1997-03-15 01:17:00
Comments: HEAD TO THE FUTURE DONT STAY IN THE PAST for one day i would use it......
Name: Barrie.W.Robinson
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Canberra
Time: 1997-03-12 19:22:00
Comments: Great work Philip and Des
Name: tracey berends, and kellie smith
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: darwin high school
Time: 1997-03-11 18:13:00
Comments: we are a group of darwin high school students researching the laws of euthanasia do you have any information we could use on this topic? if so we would greatly appreciate it
Name: Ton Ward
Website:
Referred by: NewsGroups
From: Gold Coast
Time: 1997-03-11 18:09:00
Comments: I was born in Holland, and believe in freedom of choice. Too many people are influenced by the church and have never seen the suffering of people kept artificially alive.
Name: Glen Mitchell
Website:
Referred by: Advertisment/Brochure
From: Melbourne
Time: 1997-03-10 14:58:00
Comments: Great site!!!!!
Name: Nathan Benson
Website: Nathan's Homepage
Referred by: Net Search
From: Rockbank, Victoria, Australia
Time: 1997-03-08 03:29:00
Comments: Lets make sure that the religious views of our politicans do not deny people the basic right to voluntary euthanasia.
Name: Michelle Arbizu
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Melbourne, Australia
Time: 1997-03-08 00:06:00
Comments: The deliverance homepage provided me with some very good information about euthanasia in the N.T.
Name: Alan Lovett
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Mackay, Queensland
Time: 1997-03-05 21:55:00
Comments: The sooner that governments in supposedly democratic societies realise that they do not have a right to control peoples lives the better off we will all be !
Name: Mark Tobin
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Victoria/Melbourne
Time: 1997-03-05 18:19:00
Comments: I would just like to let you know that I and many of my friends support voluntary euthanasia. Mark age 39
Name: Amanda Sutherland
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Geelong, Victoria
Time: 1997-03-05 17:02:00
Comments: I agree with what you are doing. I had to "withdraw treatment" for my 9 day old daughter and it is not an easy decision to make. It is far easier to keep a loved one with you than to make the final decision that will benefit them more than you. Age old problem, people who have never been in this position will never truly know the anguish involved. Marshall Perron unfortunately had been in that position. Don't believe the media hype and false polls. We all know that the media make them up to suit their point of view for that particular day. Most people I talk to are in favour of euthanasia so long as it can be controlled. The NT legislation appears to have enough controls to ensure a person's rights. Good Luck with the Senate.
Name: Tonie
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From:
Time: 1997-03-04 16:39:00
Comments: I find euthanasia to be a very important issue - but it took a great deal of time to find your home page. Can you give me the best option to obtain up to the minute information on the internet - as I have heard that all information is placed on the internet prior to the media. With thanks and anticipation Tonie
Name: Meg Wallace
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Canberra ACT
Time: 1997-03-04 14:14:00
Comments: The page is great, and very useful to those who are interested in the issues involved.
Name: Julie Ann Neywick
Website:
Referred by: Advertisment/Brochure
From: Kansas USA
Time: 1997-03-04 08:10:00
Comments: I very much support your effort in Australia. The NT is light years ahead of the US in this issue. I worked as a nurse for 12 years & saw a need for this even then. No one should have to suffer when there is no relief because doctors are afraid to give drugs for fear of addiction (in a dying person!) & there is no chance of healing. Everyone should have the option to dye with dignity & with their loved ones present.
Name: Jeana
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: NSW
Time: 1997-03-04 05:41:00
Comments: It is such a relief to find Australia and the World have such sympathetic and visionary people as Dr Nichke and his helpers.
Name: Jim Woulfe
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Sydney, Australia
Time: 1997-03-04 04:56:00
Comments: Thank you for keeping up this site, and for your commitment to an open debate of assisted suicide in Australia (as indicated by your link to the "living in Australia" anti-euthanasia site, and by not removing the anti-euthanasia comments in the guestbook). You will find my name here twice, because I have also posted here a copy of the guestbook entry I made at the "living in Australia" anti-euthanasia site. The message is secret here, because it would probably redundant here. However, I have put it here in case the owner of the other site should remove it from his guestbook. You can't read it without the help of the guestbook owner. If the entry on the "living in Australia" site disappears, then I guess I will do something about making it available again.
Name: Jim Woulfe
Website:
Referred by: Net Search
From: Sydney, Australia
Time: 1997-03-04 04:36:00
Comments: I posted this message to the "Living in Australia" anti-euthanasia site today. I am posting it here as well just in case they should decide to remove it. Your site takes a very emotive, even hysterical view of euthanasia. For example, you call the list of members of the House of Representatives who voted against the Andrews Bill the "Roll of Shame". You know better than most that the Andrews Bill followed a conscience vote, which is precisely what these parliamentarians did. Yet you claim that voting honourably, according to one's conscience is shameful. Shameful is not accepting that there are other viewpoints (and conscientious standpoints) in the world apart from your own. Today I visited the Braeside Hospital Palliative Care Unit, in Fairfield, Sydney, with a group of students from Japan. The work that is being done there is very impressive, and performs a great service to those whose faith prevents them from choosing a release from the pain and indignity of terminal disease. Still, if I were so afflicted I would still choose to end my life when the pain and indignity became overpowering. I enthusiastically support the alternative of palliative care, even while I claim for myself the right to determine the management of my own (should it ever happen) terminal disease. Those who are against euthanasia can simply choose not to avail themselves of it. They are wrong in claiming the right to choose for everyone else. Finally, in your guestbook, for the question "How did you find us?" you do not include the alternative "Deliverance Site". I was referred to your page by the deliverance site. If you were interested in a healthy debate, your site would have a link to them. This guestbook entry is given in the interest of that healthy debate. I trust you won't remove it.
Name: Karen Conroy
Website: Sorry don't have one
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Denman NSW
Time: 1997-03-04 00:50:00
Comments: Good Luck
Name: john mcdiarmid
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: sydney australia
Time: 1997-03-04 00:49:00
Comments: i'm thirty three years old and have never personally nown someone who is terminally ill i'm not sure if i agree with euthanasia but i can't beleive federal parliment could possibly consider overiding n.t law to stop this i do feel the states should have some decision making powers and the commonwhealth but out.As i say whether this is right wrong i don't no and will never no unless i am in the position of the first four people who have used deliverance i can only hope where they are they have no regrets and are at peace.thanks John Mcdiarmid
Name: Jimmy Ramsay (no email address given)
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Humboldt, Sk, Canada
Time: 1997-03-03 19:24:00
Comments: Assisted suicide is wrong. No one has the right to end any one else's life, even their own.
Name: Richard Clarke
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Alice Springs
Time: 1997-03-03 19:00:00
Comments: Interesting, thank you for taking the time to put this on the web.
Name: Nellie Lepej
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Rockhampton, Queensland
Time: 1997-03-02 21:20:00
Comments: Hi, I am doing some research into nurses attitudes to euthanasia as part of my 3rd year bachelor of nursing course and I stumbled onto your website. Interesting reading thank-you.
Name: Alan Byrnes
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Sydney, Australia
Time: 1997-03-02 02:55:00
Comments: Please keep everyone informed of what is going on through your web page.
Name: Simon Hasleton
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Sydney
Time: 1997-03-01 22:15:00
Comments: Certainly dont want the christian churches or any bloody Liberal pollies telling me when to die.. But equally, I'm not sure that I want any bureaucrat either permitting or witholding permission.
Name: Wendy Kelton
Website: The Blue Banana
Referred by: Net Search
From: Darwin
Time: 1997-02-28 22:16:00
Comments: If I coulc vote on the issue I would vote for the Rights of the Terminally Ill and voluntary euthanasia.
Name: Herb Brekowitz
Website:N/A<
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Anchorage, Alaska
Time: 1997-02-27 11:26:00
Comments: We are fighting for physician assisted suicide up here and wish you all the best!
Name: Leigh Brown
Website:
Referred by: Advertisment/Brochure
From: Brisbane
Time: 1997-02-26 05:32:00
Comments: You have my full support.
Name: Dagmar & Barrie Robinson
Website:
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Canberra
Time: 1997-02-25 02:19:00
Comments: Hi Guys, Love the look of the new guest page and forum, Des keep up the good work. Regards Dagmar & Barrie
Name: Brenda
Website:
Referred by: Advertisment/Brochure
From: Brisbane Queensland
Time: 1997-02-24 15:58:00
Comments: All this affair with the government saying whether we live or die is so frustrating.Who the hell are they to say,to when we live and when we should die.I believe we are the pawns in their power struggle game.
Name: Charlie & Robyn Rampant
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Perth W.A
Time: 1997-02-21 22:18:00
Comments: It is our choice.
Name: Anthony Inatey
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Bathurst, NSW
Time: 1997-02-21 18:37:00
Comments: Keep up the courageous work. This pioneering stance you have taken will one be recognized as one of the watershed moments in Australian where we have moved from a reactive insular country to a more proactive international member.
Name: petrea king
Website: Petrea King Homepage
Referred by: Word of Mouth
From: Bundanoon, NSW
Time: 1997-02-21 12:29:00
Comments: Hi Philip, I'm just completing my third book and this one touches on the issue of euthanasia. I'm still mulling over in my mind how to express my views. Like many, I admire your work. Thank you for being the voice of so many. Regards, Petrea
Name: gay alcorn
Website:
Referred by: Just Surfed On In!
From: Darwin, Australia
Time: 1997-02-19 04:12:00
Comments: Hear you're starting a Nitschke fan club, with members to be known as the Nitchettes. Any truth in it? What about the one that you'll be speaking in Argentina from the balcony of the Casa Rosada? Move over Evita. Love this homepage and cyberspace is fantastic and everything, but pity the poor journalist trying to battle Murdoch from home with limited equipment, painfully slow Internet and no inhouse technological support
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