Tasmania has passed voluntary assisted dying (VAD) legislation, making it the third jurisdiction in Australia to do so, after Victoria and Western Australia.
Ceara Rickard, who has been given a terminal diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer,is relieved it will now be legal to end her life in the late stages of her illness.
“I don’t have a death wish I would love to live until I was 80 or 90 [but] at the same time there will come a point where my body gives out,” she said.
How long will it be before people can access VAD?
Not for a while.There is an 18-month implementation period during which a Commission of Voluntary Assisted Dying will be established.
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