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Health

'Judgmental attitudes': Multiple complaints laid against new Assisted Dying Service

"Some facilities weren't really ready to provide the service."
Details of the complaint remain unknown as the Commissioner's office said it was unable to comment.
Health

Health and Disability Commissioner investigating assisted death complaint

Details of the complaint remain unknown as the Commissioner's office said it was unable to comment.

Related video: Experts are warning as many as 200,000 New Zealanders could be affected by Long COVID-19.
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'Basically bedbound': Canadian Long COVID sufferer applies for assisted dying over lack of support for condition

"From being able-bodied and employed to basically bedbound."

Watch: Michele Christie on AM about farewelling her mother through assisted dying.
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'Full of love': Daughter describes 'beautiful' final moments of her mother's life who died with euthanasia

Michele Christie farewelled her mother Athena earlier this year through assisted dying.
Canadian woman feels relieved and elated as her request for a medically assisted death nears its final approval.
Canada

'Relieved and elated': Canadian woman applies for medically-assisted death after housing hunt fails

The chronically-ill woman applied for an assisted death after failing to find a secure apartment.
The Act will come into force on November 7 and hundreds of people are expected to register. This is what that will mean in practice
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Medically assisted dying takes effect

The End of Life Choice Act has come into effect one year after nearly two-thirds of New Zealanders voted in favour of it in a referendum.
Watch: The moral conundrums for religious Kiwis deciding which way to vote on the End of Life Choice Act.
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Euthanasia: A brief reminder about what's actually coming into force today

Health Minister Andrew Little says systems are in place to begin.

The Act will come into force on November 7 and hundreds of people are expected to register. This is what that will mean in practice.
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End of Life Choice Act: What assisted dying will look like when it's legalised in New Zealand

The Act will come into force on November 7 and hundreds of people are expected to register. This is what that will mean in practice.
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French man dies in Switzerland after fight for euthanasia at home

For decades he suffered from a painful and incurable degenerative disease.
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Only 10 percent of health workers 'definitely willing' to carry out euthanasia - survey

The Ministry of Health was expecting about 1100 patients to request to end their lives in the first year of New Zealand's assisted dying regime, although it was predicting only about a third of those would carry through with euthanasia.
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What happens if a patient doesn't die during a euthanasia attempt?

Palliative care experts say we are woefully unprepared to introduce assisted dying.
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Health

Fears euthanasia training will just be an online course

The Medical Council confirmed health practitioners won't be required to have specialist skills to provide euthanasia.

He was convicted of three murders in South Africa in 2019.
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Euthanasia advocate censured after failing to disclose murder convictions

He was convicted of three murders in South Africa in 2019.
The decision proved to be a moral conundrum for New Zealand's religious community.
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Catholic clergy say assisted dying runs against core values, Islamic leader threatens Muslims who choose it with Hell

Leaders of both religions will meet over the next year to discuss what to do ahead of its legalisation.
Watch: Matt Vickers on The AM Show.
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Euthanasia advocate says Kiwis should be proud of End of Life Choice referendum results

New Zealanders voted in favour of legalising euthanasia, according to preliminary results.

Watch John Boynton's report.
The Hui

'Can't do it anymore': Woman who could be one of first Kiwis to take up assisted dying

It follows New Zealanders voting overwhelmingly in favour of the End of Life Choice Bill.
Watch: David Seymour spoke on Newshub Nation on Saturday.
Newshub Nation

Hundreds of Kiwis expected to choose euthanasia in first year - David Seymour

The majority of Kiwis voted 'yes' in the referendum, preliminary results showed.

Watch: The Newshub referendum results special. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - Getty.
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Medical experts call for increased support for palliative care after vote for euthanasia

Preliminary results showed 65 percent of Kiwis voted 'yes' in the referendum.
Watch Newshub political reporter Jenna Lynch's report.
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'Great day to be a Kiwi': Seymour overcome with emotion as euthanasia is legalised

Dr Sinead Donnelly, a palliative care specialist who rallied against the End of Life Choice Act, is devastated.
Watch: The Newshub referendum results special.
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All the things Dr Ashley Bloomfield needs to sort out now euthanasia is legal

The Director-General of Health has a list of priorities to get through before new laws come into force next year.

Watch: The moral conundrums for religious Kiwis deciding which way to vote on the End of Life Choice Act.
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NZ votes to legalise euthanasia: Here's what that means, and what happens now

We'll still be waiting a long time for an official law change.
Watch: The moral conundrums for religious Kiwis deciding which way to vote on the End of Life Choice Act.
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Euthanasia to be legal from next year after NZ votes resoundingly in favour of End of Life Choice Act

It means assisted dying will be legal from November next year.
Kiwis voted in the referendum on October 17.
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Majority of Kiwis voted 'yes' in euthanasia referendum- new poll

The preliminary results will be released on Friday.

Watch: Euthanasia opponent and Not Dead Yet Aotearoa convenor Wendi Wicks on The AM Show.
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'No fine line': Fears euthanasia Bill's eligibility criteria does not protect the disabled

"You can be disabled and have a condition that makes you eligible."

Bobbie Carroll.
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'I don't want to die in agony': Blood cancer sufferer's emotional appeal on euthanasia

But others don't want euthanasia as an option for vulnerable New Zealanders.
Melissa Vining and late husband Blair.
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'He didn't want to die': Why cancer campaigner Vining is undecided on euthanasia

"When Blair was diagnosed he was given 6-8 weeks to live and we had many, many great memories where he lived longer."
Sir John Key.
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'An awful death for her': Emotional Sir John reveals why he's voting for euthanasia

"She didn't have a clue who I was at the end of it."
The End of Life Choice Bill will be held alongside the general election on October 17.
NZ election 2020

Electoral Commission adamant anti-euthanasia flyers weren't added to EasyVote packs

More than a dozen voters reported receiving VoteSafe flyers inside their EasyVote packs.
"I don't know if I will use it or not. I just want the choice."
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Euthanasia advocate says referendum about giving people choice in emotional interview

"I don't know if I will use it or not. I just want the choice."
Watch: How New Zealanders reacted to the news euthanasia would go to a referendum.
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Group opposing euthanasia referendum claims to have no idea how its flyers got in EasyVote packs

The commission is investigating how the pamphlets ended up in EasyVote packages distributed to a Northland family.