Voluntary Assisted Dying: Law? Health? Justice?

Since voluntary assisted dying was introduced in 2019, Australia has entered what the book describes as a new moment in how life and death are governed. That moment raises new questions about the regime and its effects on law, health care and justice, and this collection sets out to ask them.

The essays bring together critical perspectives on voluntary assisted dying itself and on related practices. Topics include state power, population ageing, how humans and animals are treated differently when death comes, the quiet workarounds that shape health care processes, and the financialisation of death. The book begins with an overview of the first Australian regime before introducing those views.

The aim is to widen debate beyond law reform and its particular enactment in Australia. Edition note: published by ANU Press in 2022, 216 pages. ISBN-13 9781760465049.