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Last updated14:05, February 23 2017

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Wellington City area commander Chris Bensemann told staff not to release information as it would lead to more questions.

Police withheld information about a controversial operationbecause it would only open them up to further questions, emails reveal.

But the stance outlined in internal emails has been defended by police, because which say revealing too much information could jeopardiseongoing inquiries or future court cases.

In late2016 Police ran Operation Painter, which saw officers visiting peoplewho had considered euthanasia.

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Head of Exit International Philip Nitschke says the emails show a police culture of secerecy.

It later turned out police collected the names and addresses of many of the people, largely older women, by setting up a breath-testing roadblock down the road from a HuttValley euthanasia meeting.

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Now, an Official Information Act request shows Wellington's top police officer, Wellington City area commanderChrisBensemann,emailed his media team telling them to withhold information requested by Stuff about the operation.

Questions emailed to police in the days beforeincluded a request for comment about claims police had set up an operation, codenamed Painter, and weretargeting Exit members.

The police media team emailed Bensemannin October, asking him if he wanted to add any comment more than confirmation one woman had been charged with importing aeuthanasiadrug.

Bensemannresponded: "I don't see any merit in providing further comment at this point in time as it will only open us up to further questions, ie, each response would just create a whole new set of questions".

He asked to be informed if "anything comes up that you see as a risk that we may be forced to [respond] to".

Some details of the woman facing charges were withheld due to suppression orders, police said.

A police spokeswomanon Thursday said media had an important role in informing the public and ensuring transparency.

"Equally, however, Police have a duty to investigate thoroughly and carefully, and so are at times not in a position to answer specific questions while investigations and operations are ongoing, even if that information may be considered to be speculative, as further comment may jeopardise Police's ongoing inquiries or potential future judicial proceedings.

"These considerations therefore dictate how we respond to each request we receive. "

Later that month Bensemann confirmed that police had used the breath-testing checkpoint to target people who had attended an Exit International euthanasia meeting.

Police referred themselves to the Independent Police Conduct Authority, which is still investigating the operation.

Exit International director PhilipNitschke said the email trailshowed New Zealand police were "actively trying to dampen down public interest in their behaviour following their illegal fake road block".

Bensemann's instructions to provide no further comment was"particularly disappointing" and revealed "a culture of secrecy" within police, Nitschke said.

On Friday, Exit Wellington co-ordinatorSusanDaleAusten, 65, is due to appear in Wellington District Court facingone charge of importing the narcotic sedative pentobarbitone known as Nembutal between March 2012 and October 2016, and one of importing on September 30.

When she last appeared in court in October she was remanded without plea.

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Oregon is considering a bill that could allow the intentional taking of lives, if those lives fit into a particular category.

"Its intent," Gayle Atteberry of Oregon Right to Life tells OneNewsNow, "is to allow Alzheimers, mentally ill, and dementia patients who are conscious and are able to eat and swallow, to be starved and dehydrated to death. It's a horrifying bill. I've never seen one like it before."

Alex Schadenberg with the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition makes similar arguments in a recent piece written for LifeNews.com.

According to Atteberry, individuals with those types of medical conditions aren't capable of authorizing the withholding of their own care. Concerned that passage of Senate Bill 494 would legalize what society has considered murder, Atteberry contends insurance companies are behind the measure.

"... We can only imagine the amount of money that is saved if Alzheimers patients who are not terminal die [sooner]," she says. She is convinced it's money behind the movement to legalize euthanasia.

Doctor-assisted suicide, legalized in Oregon 20 years ago, provides the means for a person to take his or her own life. For example, patients in Oregon have been refused expensive treatments for cancer but offered less expensive pills to kill themselves.

Atteberry contends the bill now being considered is one more step down the road to euthanasia of disabled and ailing patients the actual killing of innocent persons.

Her group maintains that the bill eliminates clear legal definitions that judges need when deciding a court case. "Ambiguity, which this bill creates in numerous ways, gives everyone involved in life-and-death matters clear reign to interpret situations as they want," says the pro-life group.

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On New Years Eve, Nikki Mael of Washougal, Wash., fed her four pugs Evangers Hunk of Beef Au Jus canned dog food. Within 15 minutes the dogs began acting drunk, she said. They staggeredaround, having difficulty keeping their balance.

Mael rushed them to an emergency animal hospital. One pug, Talula, died. The other dogs survived, but one of them suffered from seizures.

A necroposy performed on Talula found large amounts of pentobarbital, a sedative used to euthanize animals and execute humans, in her stomach. Pentobarbital was also found in the dog food.

Earlier this month, Evangers Dog & Cat Food Co. announced a voluntary recall of one lot of Hunk of Beef Au Jus out of what it called an abundance of caution. The company said it sources all of its raw materials from USDA-inspected facilities.

We feel that we have been let down by our supplier, and in reference to the possible presence of pentobarbital, we have let down our customers, it stated on its website. Despite having a relationship for 40 years with the supplier of this specific beef, who also services many other pet food companies, we have terminated our relationship with them.

A week later, another dog food company, Against the Grain, also announced a voluntary recall of one lot of its Pulled Beef with Gravy Dinner for Dogs, distributed two years ago, because it could also contain pentobarbital. According to Food Safety News, both Evangers and Against the Grain may be owned by members of the same family.

Trace Amounts of Pentobarbital Not Uncommon in Dry Dog Food

How did a euthanasia drug end up in dog food? Believe it or not, trace amounts are not exactly uncommon in pet food, based on a 2001 FDA report. Tests conducted at the time discovered pentobarbital in samples of dry dog food from familiar brands like Nutro, Gravy Train, Kibbles n Bits and OlRoy (sold by Walmart).

We were unaware of the problem of pentobarbital in the pet food industry because it is most pervasive in dry foods that source most of their ingredients from rendering plants, unlike Evangers, which mainly manufactures canned foods that would not have any rendered materials in its supply chain, the company stated on its website.

In response to criticism of Evangers on social media, corporate secretary Brett Sher and his twin sister Chelsea appeared in a video posted on the companys website. In it they say that pentobarbital can be found in dry pet foods made with meat from cows that have been euthanized, and there are currently no regulations that require veterinarians to tag the meat.

The Sher siblings said the death of Talula and the sickening of the other dogs has inspired them to advocate for more oversight and regulation of how slaughtered animals enterthe animal-food stream. Evangerspaid the veterinary bills for Maels five pugs and made a donation to a local shelter in Talulas memory.

Watch What Your Dog Eats

According to TruthAboutPetFood.com, Evangers Dog & Cat Food Co.manufactures food for other pet food companies. The company uses a unique semi-circle shape instead of a straight line for the lot code stamps on cans, which makes it easy for dog owners to determine if a particular brand was manufactured by Evangers.

When its ingested, pentobarbital can cause symptoms including drowsiness, dizziness, excitement and loss of balance. If your dog shows any of these signs after eating, rush your pet to your veterinarian or closest emergency animal hospital right away.

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Fog In August (Nebel im August) is the first feature film to address the Nazis euthanasia programme.

Based on Robert Domes 2008 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of 13-year-old Ernst Lossa, who was committed to a mental hospital in 1942 because of his Roma origins.

The hospitals staunch Nazi chief physician Werner Veithausen is played by German actor Sebastian Koch, who shot to fame after starring in the 2007 Oscar-winning The Lives of Others.

He explains how he got into character: For me as an actor, the challenge was to play a character whose alienated logic makes sense. Thats why there are no devilish smiles. Veithausen gets up in the morning and sees himself in the mirror and thinks he is doing a really important job for the German people and he believes in his mission, he is convinced of what he is doing. And thats whats fascinating with this role: the man whom we see today as a murderer was doing no harm as far as he was concerned.

The film marks a return for director Kai Wessel to dark periods in German history, after his award-winning TV series Klemperer based on the diaries of a Jewish literature professor during the Third Reich, and the TV drama Die Flucht, set in the winter of 1945, which was shown in more than 50 countries.

For him, casting the main character was key to the films success. We saw a lot of actors it was a huge casting process, he says. But very early, there was no question that Ivo [Pietzcker] was a hot candidate. We did a lot of improvisation because we wanted to be 100 percent sure he was the right choice and, in the end, we knew he was.

Young Ernst soon discovers the truth behind the hospitals facade and tries to sabotage its euthanasia programme to help his new friends. Ernst is played by young Berliner Ivo Pietzcker, who was the lead character in Edward Bergers 2014 award-winning movie Jack.

I am very interested in history and I read a lot of books, history books, so, yes, I knew about euthanasia, I wasnt clueless about that, says the young actor.

One way to kill the patients was to lace raspberry juice with poison. Another, invented by Dr Faltlhauser, whose real name was changed to Veithausen in the movie, was to feed the patients with vegetable soup that had cooked so long it no longer had any nutritional value.

I am convinced that Dr Veithausen never considered himself as a criminal, rather he saw himself as part of a scientific avant-garde on a mission that he believed in, says Koch.

To invent food without any nutritional substance, where the patient believes he is eating but hes actually dying of malnutrition, is a relatively humane way to die, I mean, of course, seen from the perspective of Dr Veithausen. He was proud of his invention and he was praised by the Nazis. He had the power to decide, when the euthanasia programme ended, who would die and who would live, and he could solve that issue in a very way humane way with typical German efficiency. Such perfidy is unbelievable.

The real-life Dr Faltlhlauser was sentenced to three years in jail after the war and was pardoned by the Bavarian secretary of justice in 1954. He died in 1961.

Conservative estimates suggest that at least 5,000 German children perished as a result of the Nazis child euthanasia programme.

Fog In August was released in Germany in October.

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Ajax-Pickering MP Chris Alexander, right, debates as ReginaQuAppelle MP and former House Speaker Andrew Scheer, left, and former Ontario MP Pierre Lemieux, centre, listen at the Conservative Party leadership debate in Langley on Sunday.

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More than 500 people packed the hall at Darvonda Nurseries Saturday afternoon to hear a dozen candidates fight to lead the Conservative Party of Canada.

The Langley debate, the only one in the Fraser Valley, might have failed to bring in Kevin OLeary orDeepak Obhrai, but the 12 candidates there didnt shy away from the hard issues.

The three-hour debate was moderated by Conservative senator Yonah Martin.

Following a round of opening statements, the 12 candidates were broken up into four groups of three to debate one policy question each before answering audience questions.

The emphasis for the entire three hours was on the return to Conservative values, something the party feels is lacking both in Canadian society and Parliament.

Justin Trudeaus plan to legalize marijuana didnt go over well with the first trio.

We dont need to legalize marijuana, said Brad Trost, MP for Saskatoon-University. In a rare bit of criticism for past Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Trost admitted that the Conservatives should have done more to educate Canadians on the dangers of the drug.

Safe injection sites were also unpopular with both Milton MP Lisa Raitt and Trost.

We need to take legislative action to stop these things from spreading, Trost said.

One candidate broke from the crowd.

"I favour the safe injection sites, having lived in Vancouver and done volunteer work with First Nations youth and others in the Downtown Eastside and having listened to people on the ground, said Rick Peterson. Peterson, a Vancouver-based venture capitalist, was the only one on the stage with no political experience.

Smimcoe-Grey MP Kellie Leith vowed to interview every single person who crossed the Canadian border and send those who are there illegally back.

"We have laws about this. These individuals should be detained. We should talk to them about whether they really are refugees and if they arent they should be sent home, she said.

Leitch drew on her experience as a former surgeon when questioning the federal governments euthanasia legislation.

Wellington-Halton Hills MP Michael Chong appealed to social conservatives.

I believe in freedom of conscience, Chong said.

Former North Vancouver MP Andrew Saxton reminded the audience that he had voted against assisted dying.

I was concerned that people at their most vulnerable time would be making decisions that were irreversible, he said.

Trudeaus carbon tax was met with derision across the board.

Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide exists naturally in the atmosphere, said ReginaQuAppelle MP and former House Speaker Andrew Scheer.

Scheer, former Ontario MP Pierre Lemieux, and Ajax-Pickering MP Chris Alexander all spoke out against the Liberals carbon tax, vowing to remove it if they took the top spot.

Beauce MP Maxime Bernier, Durham MP Erin OToole, andLvisBellechasse MP Steven Blaney all said they would reverse the Liberal deficit.

Cutting taxes was the popular choice across the board while some, like Peterson, advocated for getting rid of corporate taxes entirely.

Trost had one other idea.

"Let me offer a helpful suggestion where we can find $1 billion. Get rid of the CBC privatize it, he said. The Conservatives have tried to make cuts to CBC before the latest round launched the Save the CBC campaign in 2015.

Increased military spending, and particularly more ships for the Navy, received universal approval.

As a founding country in NATO, we should all be embarrassed that in the last generation, we have not made the two per cent commitment we pledged, said OToole. Alliance member nations pledge to spend two per cent of their GDP on defence funding.

And now we see [U.S.] President Donald Trump questioning NATO because of all the free riding countries like us."

Lemieux spoke out against the untouchability of Supreme Court decisions.

The Supreme Court is almost sacrosanct. Youre not allowed to breathe a sigh of concern about the Supreme Court of Canada and thats wrong, said Lemieux.

The most controversial issues of our day abortion, euthanasia, prostitution they havent been decided by parliamentarians, they havent been decided by Canadians. Theyve been decided with the Supreme Court.

Lemieux believes that all of those issues should be up for debate. That includes abortion, which Harper did not touch during his time in office.

Trost and Blaney joined in on the debate, both saying that they were willing to use the notwithstanding clause which allows Parliament to override portions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Conservative Party will choose a new leader on May 27 in Toronto.

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Likely Lads star Brigit Forsyth has revealed her GP grandfather helped dying patients end their lives - and that she supports euthanasia.

Brigit is playing a terminally ill musician in her latest venture, so perhaps it is that which sparked her bare all interview.

The star, who played Thelma Harris in Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? disclosed that her grandad helped patients end their lives.

Her mother, Anne, told her that Dr Noel Forsyth carried out a long line of mercy killings.

The actress says: I know for a fact, and Im sure its true of all doctors at the time, he bumped off probably loads of people with doses of morphine.

When they were having a horrific death from cancer or something, in terrible pain.

He would just up the morphine and then they died. I dont see anything wrong with that. Hed be called a murderer today, but thats what people were doing.

The law says youre not allowed to help people get off this planet. Well, I think it probably needs to be looked at.

Brigit was delivered by her grandfather, who brought hundreds of infants into the world during the time he practised, from around 1906 up to his death in 1948.

But she believes Dr Forsyth also helped hundreds of people to die, in and around the town of Malton, North Yorkshire.

He probably did. But surely its better people go nicely than have a horrible, strung-out death.

I think its terrific that he did that. I think euthanasia is a very good idea. To me, its a nightmare if youre kept going as a sort of vegetable, or in pain.

Is it so bad to say, I cant walk, I cant see, I cant hear so Id like to get off this planet now. I would take myself off to Dignitas . I would make it very clear that was what I wanted.

Brigit, 76, spoke about euthanasia as she was preparing to star as a dying musician in Killing Time, which is now playing in London.

Discussing death also prompted another revelation, this time about her late husband, the TV director Brian Mills.

After they wed in 1975, he became an alcoholic, which destroyed their marriage and eventually killed him in 2006, aged 72.

For the first time, Brigit says it was his addiction that led to her walking out on him in 1999.

She said: I woke up one morning and I thought, Im going to have to go. I never, ever thought I would leave him and it was awful. But it was the right thing to do.

I would have stayed if hed gone for help. But he didnt want to stop drinking. He didnt think there was a problem. You cant live with it I couldnt.

We had some super laughs before the booze kicked in. He was such a lovely guy and the humour was terrific.

But its just heartbreaking, it completely alters peoples personalities.

After I left we became friends. We never divorced, we just separated. He was still my husband when he died. I thought, We dont need to do that. I just dont want to live with him anymore.

The couple had a son, Ben, and daughter, Zoe, and Brigit now has grandchildren.

But despite having her family around her, she still mourns the loss of a partner.

I never thought Id be in my 70s and not have a partner. Thats the sad bit, but Ive got used to it, she reveals.

Brigit feels the absence of a man particularly keenly as she hasnt lost her sex drive.

Things do change. Im talking about sex, she says. It fades, but not entirely.

Theres still a bit of me thats still ticking. I see a lot of men and think, I wouldnt kick you out of bed. And if Brad Pitt turned up on my doorstep, I wouldnt close the door. Id invite him in for a drink.

Brigit has tried internet dating, but its yet to prove successful.

My daughter and niece made me do it. I never would have done it by myself, she admits.

Unfortunately, Ive met some boring old sods who just want to talk about themselves.

But while she may not have an active love life, Brigits works keeps her busy.

Along with Killing Time, shes currently on TV screens as Madge in BBC Ones Still Open All Hours. Born in 1940, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

She starred in TV drama Adam Smith, where she met Brian, in 1972.

A year later she got her big break, as Thelma in the hit BBC sitcom, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?, which ran from 1973 to 1974, with a film in 1976.

Since then, shes been in everything from Boon and Poirot to Coronation Street and Holby City. On stage, shes starred in Calendar Girls and Single Spies, Alan Bennetts acclaimed stage show, in which she played the Queen.

But would she consider taking part in a revival of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

She replies: I cant imagine wanting to play Thelma again. It was wonderful for its time and its the reason why Im still working today. Theyre obsessed with bringing stuff back. I think its because theyre terrified of not having a hit. But they should explore new material, because theres loads of talented people out there.

Speaking of talented people, Brigits daughter, Zoe Mills, is both the author of Killing Time and her co-star in the show. Brigit plays the terminally ill former cellist, Hester, while Zoe takes on the role of her social worker.

And, despite the dark subject matter, the play is actually a comedy.

Brigit explains: Theres this woman is a feisty ex-musician whos very sorted about it all. She thinks, Oh well Im dying, so what?. But everybody around her is saying, Oh dear, it must be awful for you. But these two women gradually form a very prickly friendship and thats where the comedy comes from, which was a huge relief.

Because I was worried about it simply being advertised as a play about a woman dying because I thought, People need this like a hole in the head.

Killing Time is on at the Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, until March 4.

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Savagery can be subtle.

Oregon, which in 1997 became the first state in the U.S. to legalize assisted suicide, is considering tweaking the laws surrounding advance directives, the legal documents by means of which a person can dictate ahead of time his desires for end-of-life care. The innocuous-seeming changes that Senate Bill 494 proposes would permit the state to starve certain patients to death.

Under current state law, artificially administered nutrition and hydration intravenous feeding by tubes does not include food administered normally: by cup, hand, bottle, drinking straw or eating utensil. The latter category, unlike the former, is considered part of the basic provision of care required for the sick, and required by law as long as the patient is mentally incompetent to say otherwise.

In 2016, Bill Harris of Ashland, Ore., asked a state court to order a nursing facility to stop providing food and water to his wife, Nora, who suffers from Alzheimers disease. Nora could no longer communicate and had lost use of her fine-motor skills, making it impossible for her to use utensils, so the facility had begun spoon-feeding her. According to the nursing facility, Nora continued to choose whether she wanted to eat or not, and the facility never coerced her. Nonetheless, her husband maintained that when she stated in her advance directive that she did not want artificial nutrition, she intended all forms of feeding.

The courts decided against Bill Harris, but S.B. 494, introduced last month and currently under consideration in committee, would reshape the law to suit him. The bill removes the statutory definition of tube feeding and life support, and replaces the word desires with preferences. To the requirement in its advance-directive forms that my healthcare representative must follow my instructions, the bill adds: to the extent appropriate. It also removes the statutory definition of health care instruction.

These understated changes are intended to create interpretive ambiguity. Under the amended bill, would Nora Harriss rejection of artificial nutrition and hydration include being fed by a nurse at her bedside? Even though she is conscious, willful, and able to eat, does continuing to feed her constitute life support? Under S.B. 494, these questions would be left up to the courts, or to regulatory bodies such as the Advance Directive Rules Adoption Committee, which the bill creates ex nihilo. The committees members would be appointed by the governor and have sole authority to revise the states advance-directive forms that is, to continue the subversive work of the legislature without meaningful oversight.

The state of Oregon is, in a word, making it easier for the state of Oregon to kill its most vulnerable citizens.

It seems of little interest to the states legislators that their enterprise is a reversal of the states purpose to protect the preexisting right to life, not to bestow that right on citizens of its choosing. Likewise, Oregons legislators seem little concerned with the possibility that the expansion of a governments claim to its citizens lives accrues a momentum of its own; there is a straight line between this bill and a recent incident in the Netherlands, where the family of a dementia patient held her down as she resisted euthanasia.

But it is worse. Having destroyed the professional oath to which doctors are bound, Oregon would destroy the basic ethic of care that is the mark of a humane society the expectation that says to tend the sick, to clothe the naked, to shelter the homeless. I was hungry and you gave me food. Under the auspices of a false mercy, Oregon would demand the opposite: to greet Nora Harris, or someone like her a person who is conscious, who is mobile, who expresses emotion and harbors desires and to reject her. Human beings meet each other in the recognition of mutual vulnerability. Oregon would craft a society only for the strong.

That has been attempted before, of course, many times, and it has effected only more brutality. Weakness, by contrast, is an occasion for love to reveal itself, unfolding in a moment of grace. No suffering can entirely occlude this hope. In the final accounting, life is always and everywhere good, and so it is where it is most vulnerable that it demands the fiercest defense.

Ian Tuttle is the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Pet owners warned to avoid certain Evangers and Against the Grain dog food By Phyllis Entis | February 17, 2017

The Food and Drug Administration is advising pet owners and pet caretakers not to feed their pets with certain lots of Evangers and Against the Grain dog food after confirming the presence of the euthanasia agent pentobarbital in both products.

Following discussions with FDA, Evangers announced a voluntary recall Feb. 3 of five lots of its 12-ounce Hunk of Beef canned dog food, all with an expiration date of June 2020: 1816E03HB, 1816E04HB, 1816E06HB, 1816E07HB, and 1816E13HB.

At least five dogs became ill after eating the Evangers food. One of them died.

On Feb. 9 Against the Grain voluntarily recalled lot number 2415E01ATB12, BEST DEC 2019, of its Grain Free Pulled Beef with Gravy dog food after the FDA detected pentobarbital in it. The Pulled Beef with Gravy was manufactured in the same facilities as Evangers products and using beef from the same supplier.

In addition to the presence of pentobarbital, FDA reports a bill of lading from Evangers supplier of Inedible Hand Deboned Beef For Pet Food Use Only. Not Fit for Human Consumption. This is despite Evangers claim that the beef in its Hunk of Beef product came from a USDA approved supplier.

FDA also has determined that the suppliers facility does not have a grant of inspection from USDAs Food Safety and Inspection Service. The meat from the supplier does not bear a USDA inspection mark and would not be considered human grade. Lab testing by USDA of Evangers Hunk of Beef confirmed that the meat in the product was beef.

Other issues cited in a preliminary investigation report, an FDA Form 483, released today by FDA included evidence of unsanitary conditions, inadequate refrigeration, improper storage and inadequate control of ambient temperature during hand-packing operations at Evangers Wheeling, IL, facility and unsanitary conditions and avian activity at its Markham, IL, manufacturing location.

FDAs investigation is ongoing and will include examination of the suppliers of beef to Evangers and Against the Grain to determine the source of the pentobarbital. The agency is coordinating with USDA to address possible areas of shared jurisdiction.

Consumers with cans of the recalled product should refer to the Evangers and Against the Grain recall notices for information on returning the product.

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Pauline Hanson and Derryn Hinch launched emotional arguments in favour of euthanasia, describing the relief it would have given to their families.

The senators were speaking during a debate on a private members bill that would cut federal interference with laws in the territories on assisted suicide, The Daily Telegraph reported.

She weighed about 30 kilos, and looked like a Biafran refugee, Hinch revealed of his mothers appearance as she suffered from lung cancer 26 years ago. Hinch himself has fought liver cancer.

Hanson, meanwhile, spoke of watching the impact on her father of Parkinsons disease, The Daily Telegraph wrote.

We have more compassion for animals than we do for people, Hanson said,adding that euthanasia opponents had never watched a family member lose the ability to care for themselves.

The private members bill would allow the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory legislative powers to bring in assisted suicide and repeal the Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 that prevents them from doing so.

The Restoring Territory Rights (Dying with Dignity) Bill 2016was brought by Greens leader Richard Di Natale. Announcing the bill in August, Di Natale said: Dying with dignity is a social justice issue, its a human rights issue, its a public health issue and it should not be pushed to the political margins.

Hinch and Hanson have been vocal in their support for euthanasia for some time.

Hansons One Nation party has a policy advocating euthanasia, that proposes any person of voting age be permitted to have a document written up that appoints two people as executors who could carry out that persons wish for assisted suicide should they be unable to take action themselves.

I and only I, will determine when my time is up and if I am not in a position to do so, then loved ones of my choosing will, Hanson has written of the policy.

Hinch has argued in the past that the right to decide on ones time of death was robbing older Australians of their dignity.

Being deprived of the legal right to decide that their quality of life has deteriorated to such an extent that they want to say goodbye, he has written of the current laws.

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Pauline Hanson and Derryn Hinch launched emotional arguments in favour of euthanasia, describing the relief it would have given to their families.

The senators were speaking during a debate on a private members bill that would cut federal interference with laws in the territories on assisted suicide, The Daily Telegraph reported.

She weighed about 30 kilos, and looked like a Biafran refugee, Hinch revealed of his mothers appearance as she suffered from lung cancer 26 years ago. Hinch himself has fought liver cancer.

Hanson, meanwhile, spoke of watching the impact on her father of Parkinsons disease, The Daily Telegraph wrote.

We have more compassion for animals than we do for people, Hanson said,adding that euthanasia opponents had never watched a family member lose the ability to care for themselves.

The private members bill would allow the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory legislative powers to bring in assisted suicide and repeal the Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 that prevents them from doing so.

The Restoring Territory Rights (Dying with Dignity) Bill 2016was brought by Greens leader Richard Di Natale. Announcing the bill in August, Di Natale said: Dying with dignity is a social justice issue, its a human rights issue, its a public health issue and it should not be pushed to the political margins.

Hinch and Hanson have been vocal in their support for euthanasia for some time.

Hansons One Nation party has a policy advocating euthanasia, that proposes any person of voting age be permitted to have a document written up that appoints two people as executors who could carry out that persons wish for assisted suicide should they be unable to take action themselves.

I and only I, will determine when my time is up and if I am not in a position to do so, then loved ones of my choosing will, Hanson has written of the policy.

Hinch has argued in the past that the right to decide on ones time of death was robbing older Australians of their dignity.

Being deprived of the legal right to decide that their quality of life has deteriorated to such an extent that they want to say goodbye, he has written of the current laws.

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