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Judge nudges dormant euthanasia draft law

Chris Bateman

Abstract


A terminally ill Cape Town advocate who died of natural causes hours before a Gauteng High Court judge granted him the locally unprecedented right to end his life (or have a doctor help him end it) may have speeded up long-recommended progressive law more in line with provisions of the Constitution.

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Chris Bateman, Health and medical Publishing Group, South Africa

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Keywords

Euthanasia; Assisted suicide; Terminal illness; Judge H J Fabricius; Robin Stransham-Ford

Cite this article

South African Medical Journal 2015;105(6):432-433. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.9789

Article History

Date submitted: 2015-05-28
Date published: 2015-05-28

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