Tasmania’s euthanasia diehards | The Spectator Australia

Euthanasia is being considered by the Tasmanian Parliament for the fourth time in 11 years, proving that some things just won’t die.

So-called Voluntary Assisted Dying, first killed off by the State Parliament in 2009, was resurrected in 2013 only to bite the dust when it was put to the vote.

The legislation rose again in 2017 but was quickly snuffed out by two-thirds of Tasmania’s MPs who declined to support it.

Anyone who thought then that the issue was well and truly buried was dead wrong.

Now, with almost as many reincarnations as Shirley MacLaine, euthanasia has come back to life in Tasmania – this time as a private members bill passed in the state’s eclectic upper house this morning and expected to be voted on…