SAFEGUARD
FOR LIFE-ENDING DECISIONS
MONITORING
COMMITTEE OF DIVERSE CITIZENS
The proposed
legislation for South Australia
includes a provision for a Voluntary Euthanasia Monitoring Committee.
(See section 19 of
the bill linked above.)
This government-appointed committee
would include a doctor, a lawyer, an advocate for disabled people,
an advocate of voluntary euthanasia, etc.
It purpose is to review and evaluate how the law is working in practice
and to recommend any needed changes.
Other government systems that approve laws
concerning the right-to-die
could also appoint committees to review their laws in practice.
Or they could require that existing committees
do such a review and issue a report.
HOW A MONITORING COMMITTEE MIGHT DISCOURAGE PREMATURE DEATH
Because such a government committee does it work
after the fact,
no specific deaths of the past could be undone.
But if they uncover some common abuses of the new system,
they could recommend more and better safeguards
to prevent premature deaths in the future.