Over 170 accounts of patients’ experiences of severe pain and suffering in years before their death have been submitted to the Queensland government, which seeks to gauge the level of support in the community for voluntary euthanasia.
140 of the 170 reports strongly urged a move by the state to allow medically assisted dying, provided there are safeguards put in place.
Many submissions sent a strong message, including Carol Cronk’s who stated she will soon travel to Switzerland for a medically assisted death, to avoid the trauma in high dependence dementia care she witnessed her mother experience, saying “her everyday screams were for God to take her”.