Terminally ill win right to end their lives

Terminally ill win right to end their lives

Sydney - The parliament of Australia's Northern Territory has passed the world's first law giving terminally ill adults the right to end their lives. The Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act allows terminally ill adults of sound mind with only a year to live to ask doctors to end their lives. The adults must live in the Northern Territory, which has a population of 180,000. "This is a world first," a spokesman for the Legislative Assembly said yesterday. Reuter