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On May 25, 1995, the parliament of Australia's Northern Territory passed the Northern Territory Rights of the Terminally Ill Act,1 making voluntary euthanasia legal. This act allows physicians to prescribe and administer lethal substances to terminally ill patients who formally request assistance in ending their lives. In this article we provide an overview and analysis of the act, which is expected to take effect this year.BackgroundThe Northern Territory occupies some 1.35 million square kilometers (520,000 square miles) and is almost twice the size of Texas. It is governed by a single-chamber state parliament with 25 members. Forty-six percent . . .
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