The extent to which Australia has in a very short period of time seen the "slippery slope" of extended euthanasia and assisted suicide from what was originally intended is exposed in a recently released report.
The new briefing paper on Australia's experience by Professor David Albert Jones, bioethicist and director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, also emphasises how this trend in Australia has implications for the ongoing debate and legislative push for bringing assisted suicide into the UK and Ireland.
