VAD

• The ACT Labor-Greens government is currently considering legalising voluntary assisted dying, as has recently occurred in all six Australian states.
• The ACT proposes not setting a minimum age requirement for access to voluntary assisted dying.

ACT could be the first

• If passed, the ACT would become the first Australian jurisdiction to allow access to voluntary assisted dying by people under 18.
• Internationally, only three countries – the Netherlands, Belgium and Colombia – permit minors to access voluntary assisted dying or euthanasia.

Suffering doesn’t discriminate by age

• Young people, just like adults, may also be suffering intolerably from an incurable terminal illness.
• Age limits are only an approximation of a person’s capacity to make one’s own decisions in important matters of life and death.
• In Belgium, where no minimum age is stipulated (provided children understand the decision they are making), children as young as 9 and 11 have been granted access to euthanasia.

Checks and balances required

• Parental consent is required in addition to the child’s consent for all children in Belgium (except emancipated minors), and for children aged under 16 in the Netherlands and under 14 in Colombia.
• For children aged 16 to 17 in the Netherlands, and 14 to 17 in Colombia, parents are informed and consulted about the young person’s decision.
• Some jurisdictions, including Belgium and Columbia, require extra consultations above those required for adults, to confirm a young person’s capacity to make the decision to end their life.

How many young people could choose voluntary assisted dying?

• There is not likely to be a great need for young people to access voluntary assisted dying in the ACT.
• Although cases of terminally ill young people seeking access to VAD are likely to be exceptional, they will occasionally arise.

How else could ACT laws be different?

• Some other departures from the Australian model proposed by the ACT government are likely to have a far greater impact than the inclusion of minors.
• Another proposal with far-reaching ramifications is whether a request for voluntary assisted dying can be made in an advance directive.

Under consideration

• The next step is for the ACT government to develop its preferred model law to legalise voluntary assisted dying in the territory.
• It will then be considered by a parliamentary committee, before being debated in the ACT Legislative Assembly some time next year.

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