Published: February 19, 2020
Law applies only to adults with incurable, advanced, progressive condition and with decision-making capacity
Fifty-two Victorians ended their lives in the six months after Victoria’s historic voluntary assisted dying law came into effect in June.
The second report of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board, published on Wednesday, said between 19 June and 31 December 2019, 136 people began the assessment process to access the medication, and 81 people were issued with permits. Fifty-two people died from taking the medications subsequently prescribed, and all of those deaths were compliant with the law.
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