Greens Spark Euthanasia Debate

October 7, 2010

Advances in medical care have transformed our relationship to dying. Medical technology will continue to blur what we mean by death and its relation to our lives, foreshadowed by extraordinary cases such as 41-year-old American Terri Schiavo, who was in a vegetative state for more than 15 years. A prolonged legal and political battle eventually led to the stopping of tube feeding in 2005, and her death. (Sunday Morning Herald)