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Medical advances have created ethical dilemmas, which no previous generation of doctors has ever faced. New life-sustaining techniques and practices are forcing doctors to ask questions that never needed to be asked before. Foremost of these is: "How far do we go to save a life"? Other questions challenge ethical traditions, which have been in place for centuries. "When suffering is immeasurable and a patient's condition terminal, should doctors be permitted to end a patient's …

…lead of the Netherlands in allowing euthanasia to be carried out by medical practitioners under clear guidelines. State governments in Australia would probably have to introduce a legislation to achieve a situation like that in the Netherlands, but when such legislation is introduced they will have made an enormous contribution to the exercise of personal freedom by those individuals who wish to die at a time of their own choosing and with their dignity intact.