Adelaide recently hosted the 29th national conference of the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (ACCC), providing a mix of intellectual formation, common prayer and priestly fellowship for its members.
Legislation enabling doctors to participate in ending their patients’ lives via euthanasia or assisted suicide is not the right solution for terminally ill people, but any doctor who leaves someone in pain should be “put in gaol”, according to world-renowned ethicist and opponent of euthanasia Professor Margaret Somerville AM.
American Professor William L. Toffler was in Adelaide this week to speak about his personal experience of working as a doctor in Portland, Oregon, where physician-assisted suicide has been legal for the past two decades.
Professor Ian Olver has devoted his life to cancer treatment and research and believes people still have much to offer at the end of their life.
