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Last Wills, Advance Directives, and Enduring Powers of Attorney

Why they are really important, if you want to keep control of your life. This article, written by Helen Yensen and Dr. Phillipa Malpas, was printed in the June 2010 Greypower Magazine.

ISSUES AROUND END-OF-LIFE CHOICES

This article looks at the some of the practical and ethical issues around end of the life choices that are available to us. Written by Helen Yensen and Dr Phillipa Malpas published in the September 2010 Greypower magazine.

End of life and the hastening of death – what can New Zealand learn from legislation and practice elsewhere?

First half published in the Grey Power Magazine, Dec ‘10 issue; second half will appear in the June 2011 issue. 5 pages

Listen to patients about suffering

Sir, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff highlights the progress made in, and the need for, palliative medicine ("Assisted suicide is fine in a perfect world. We don't live (or die) in one", Opinion, April 1).

Medical Ethics Expert says "freedom of speech is dead in Ireland"

'Mob' silences mercy death debate. Medical expert claims protesters' block on euthanasia talk bodes ill for free speech. Cork protesters stifled free speech, claims Doyal who likened the scene to the 1960s civil rights protests.

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