| The following links are to various euthanasia and other support sites that you may find useful: |
| International Links |
| Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organisation (ERGO) holds that voluntary euthanasia, physician assisted suicide, and self deliverance are all appropriate life endings depending on the individual medical and ethical circumstances. |
| Exit International is the pro-choice voluntary euthanasia/ assisted suicide organisation founded by Dr Philip Nitschke. |
| Questia An on-line research library |
| Voluntary Euthanasia Society of New Zealand seeks a change to the law to allow terminally ill patients, or those whose quality of life has diminished to an unacceptable extent, the right to a peaceful death with dignity at a time of their own choosing. |
| The World Federation of Right to Die Societies founded in 1980, consists of 40 organisations from 23 countries around the world, each working to secure or protect the individual's right to die. |
| Australian Links |
| Vountary Euthanasia Societry of Queensland Inc. believes that people, particularly those who are elderly or who are suffering from a terminal or hopeless illness, should not be forced to endure severe distress against their wishes. |
South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society |
| Dying with Dignity is an active law reform and 'self help' organisation pursuing public policies and laws in the state of Victoria that enhance self-determination and dignity at the end of life. |
| Western Australia Voluntary Euthanasia Society (WAVES) seeks to bring about changes to the law and to medical ethics to allow a person, suffering severe pain or distress with no reasonable prospect of recovery, to receive, with the proper safeguards, a painless medically assisted and dignified death in accordance with his or her expressed wishes. |
| Your Choice seeks to encourage awareness, debate and legislative change in Victoria for people who have major health issues which rob them of any true quality of life. |
| Dying with Dignity Tasmania seeks to achieve legislation giving effect to freedom of choice and individual human rights, so that any person suffering through illness or other medical condition, severe pain or distress for which no remedy is available that is acceptable to the person, should be entitled by law to a painless and dignified death in accordance with that person's expressed direction. |
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