When pharmacists delivered Sue Parker a small safe containing the prescribed substance that would end her life, her spirits changed “100 per cent”.
“She went from being down and depressed and upset … her mood just lifted,” her daughter Nicole Lee said.Sue Parker , before her death, with her daughter Nicole Lee.Parker, a nurse who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, is not the only voluntary assisted dying applicant to get a lift after her application succeeded.In the first three years of the scheme, 1035 people were issued permits for the prescribed medication.
“You can’t measure the success of the program solely by the number of people who take the medication and die. There are a significant number of people – up to 30 per cent – who receive the medication, and benefit from having control, but don’t use it,” Gardner said. Gardner spoke out against the federal law that blocks doctors from discussing voluntary assisted dying on a telehealth appointment. It is illegal to discuss or advise about it by telephone, email or text.
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