Australian who won 'right to die' case has died

RIP Mr Rossiter.
Bless you for your courage and determination.

It's not quite the way i'd want to die (I'm referring to the starving), but he has a right to do so.

^^^ He ultimately died of an infection, not starvation.

Im glad he was allowed to die. Right to die is a strong topic with me and my class and am glad to see it advancing

He was finally allowed to exercise his autonomy.....

RIP, and thank you.

I hope he is at peace. Hopefully others with the same desire will be allowed to choose to go on their own terms.

I strongly believe we should help people who are either terminally ill or have a desperate situation such as Mr. Rossiters' to end their life. I know if I was terminally ill of cancer I would want someone to help me die before cancer killed me. I am 24 years old and I have already witnessed the passing of two of my family members due to cancer. Why would someone prefer to die the painful death that cancer often causes when they can be given a shot and end it quicker? I think those against euthanasia probably don't have as much exposure to the devastating effects that certain diseases have on the body.

I am not going to live that way, no way, no how. My husband knows this. If I every become a quad, no feeding tubes, no intubation nothing. Give me lots of morphine and let me die. I will not live like that. I won't live on dialysis, I won't live with any type of feeding tube and I won't live if I am not able to take care of myself or if I develop dementia. No way.

I agree with most of the posters regarding how I would not want to live. HOwever since I have been a dialysis nurse for the past 19 years, I have to say that should the need arise, I would do dialysis in a heartbeat. It certainly is not an ideal way to live, but barring a terminal co-condition, give me dialysis. I had the pleasure of meeting and working on a video with a young woman named Lori Hartwell. She developed kidney disease at a very young age. Just google her name and see someone who took life's lemon and turned it into lemonade. I don't mean to sound like I'm on a soapbox. Durng my many years in dialysis, I have never met a patient who would have chosen dialysis but once started they chose it as a way to continue living.