LEGAL EXPANSION to KIDS, MENTALLY ILL GETTING EUTHANISED
"We've had a Superior Court Justice who's said the reasonably foreseeable death clause does not apply - so prognosis is not to be a factor. So anyone with chronic disease, osteoarthritis for example, have been given permission to be euthanised. Now the Government has mandated a taskforce to look at extending the criteria to including mental health."
"The largest children's hospital in Canada - the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children - has already published their guidelines on how euthanasia will occur for mature minors. It includes if the child says they don't want the parent to know, the parent will be informed the child has died after they've received euthanasia."
FATAL FLAWS
We’ve all heard the tragic and much publicized stories of people who have asked for an assisted death. Heartbreaking cases. Since 1998, five countries and six US states have passed laws making an assisted death legal under certain criteria. Victoria, Australia and Hawaii, USA are the most recent jurisdictions to adopt assisted dying laws. Almost every country in the world is discussing some form of legalization and America is “at a tipping point”.
This film is not out to demonize doctors, advocates – or anyone for that matter. In fact, most doctors want nothing to do with assisted death. However a small minority do, and the number is growing. Rather, this film is about the adoption of – and resistance to – a new cultural philosophy that may affect you at the most vulnerable time of your life.
We’ve all heard the tragic and much publicized stories of people who have asked for an assisted death. Heartbreaking cases. Since 1998, five countries and six US states have passed laws making an assisted death legal under certain criteria. Victoria, Australia and Hawaii, USA are the most recent jurisdictions to adopt assisted dying laws. Almost every country in the world is discussing some form of legalization and America is “at a tipping point”.
This film is not out to demonize doctors, advocates – or anyone for that matter. In fact, most doctors want nothing to do with assisted death. However a small minority do, and the number is growing. Rather, this film is about the adoption of – and resistance to – a new cultural philosophy that may affect you at the most vulnerable time of your life.
KELLY COX
“Please consider your decision from all angles and all perspectives, you have the power to decide whether people live or die. Please don't take that lightly. And it isn't only people with cancer who cannot access treatment and services, people with disability don't always have the same access to preventative health services as everyone else, a lot of the time this is because of lack of access.”
“So what I'm asking is that before you take steps to make sure that people can die with dignity, as we hear so often, that you first make sure that everyone has the same opportunity to access health services and live a life free from discrimination, whether that be systemic, attitudinal, or environmental.”
“Please consider your decision from all angles and all perspectives, you have the power to decide whether people live or die. Please don't take that lightly. And it isn't only people with cancer who cannot access treatment and services, people with disability don't always have the same access to preventative health services as everyone else, a lot of the time this is because of lack of access.”
“So what I'm asking is that before you take steps to make sure that people can die with dignity, as we hear so often, that you first make sure that everyone has the same opportunity to access health services and live a life free from discrimination, whether that be systemic, attitudinal, or environmental.”
LIZ CARR'S MESSAGE TO AUSTRALIA
“Coercion is not about being dragged to your death. Coercion is worse than that usually. It's usually social coercion, and it looks in the form of you decide yourself, because life's so poor, but that's not always physical or mental. It can often be because you've not got the support you need or because you're with a family that you don't want to burden.”
UK Comedian, TV star and disability activist, Liz Carr was in Melbourne recently for the Melbourne Comedy Festival. This is her message to Victorians about assisted suicide
“Coercion is not about being dragged to your death. Coercion is worse than that usually. It's usually social coercion, and it looks in the form of you decide yourself, because life's so poor, but that's not always physical or mental. It can often be because you've not got the support you need or because you're with a family that you don't want to burden.”
UK Comedian, TV star and disability activist, Liz Carr was in Melbourne recently for the Melbourne Comedy Festival. This is her message to Victorians about assisted suicide
SAM CONNOR
“Disability and assisted suicide is incredibly inappropriate when put together.…we think the whole idea is actually really rude and inappropriate. It's being marketed as something that's about death with dignity, and the idea of dignity is really problematic for us because a lot of us don't go to the toilet in the same way that other people do and it's not something about us being less dignified.”
“Those issues around the narrative that our lives are tragedies is a really, really big issue for us and they're the things that I don't think non-disabled people know.”
“Disability and assisted suicide is incredibly inappropriate when put together.…we think the whole idea is actually really rude and inappropriate. It's being marketed as something that's about death with dignity, and the idea of dignity is really problematic for us because a lot of us don't go to the toilet in the same way that other people do and it's not something about us being less dignified.”
“Those issues around the narrative that our lives are tragedies is a really, really big issue for us and they're the things that I don't think non-disabled people know.”
THE MOTHER SITUATION
Three cash-strapped siblings try to talk their wealthy mother into ‘committing euthanasia’.
TROPFEST 2017 WINNER - BEST FILM, BEST ACTRESS (Sacha Horler), BEST SCREENPLAY AUDIENCE AWARD, DEAD BY DAWN FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Written, directed and edited by Matt Day.
Produced by Matt Day and Di Smith. Starring Sacha Horler, Harriet Dyer, Maggie Dence, Julia Ohannessian, Peter O'Brien and Matt Day.
TROPFEST 2017 WINNER - BEST FILM, BEST ACTRESS (Sacha Horler), BEST SCREENPLAY AUDIENCE AWARD, DEAD BY DAWN FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Written, directed and edited by Matt Day.
Produced by Matt Day and Di Smith. Starring Sacha Horler, Harriet Dyer, Maggie Dence, Julia Ohannessian, Peter O'Brien and Matt Day.