Australia cancer sufferer first to use new assisted dying law

Monday, 5 August 2019
Australia cancer sufferer first to use new assisted dying law | Sky Singapore
A 61-year-old cancer patient has become the first person in over two decades to die under controversial assisted dying laws in Australia, a charity said. Kerry Robertson died in July, three months after the mother-of-two ceased treatment for metastatic breast cancer, the support group Go Gentle Australia said Sunday. The state of Victoria passed a law in 2017 to legalise the practice, which went into effect this June. Other states are now...
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