For Melbourne bioethicist Nicholas Tonti-Filippini euthanasia is more than academic. He is in chronic pain with a terminal illness. Earlier this week he published an open letter to the Premier of South Australia, Mike Rann, urging him not to support Voluntary Euthanasia Bill 2010. (It was defeated yesterday.) Dr Tonti-Filippini's professional credentials are impressive. He was Australia's first hospital bioethicist and is a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council and chair of the sub-committees on the Unresponsive State and Comercialization of Human Tissue. Read it in full here.
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