Former Senator Amanda Vanstone used her Fairfax column recently to advocate for assisted suicide and euthanasia legislation. We should note former PM Paul Keating used the same forum last year to describe the Victorian euthanasia legislation as “misguided” and “warned that advocates were in a state of denial about other human failings which exist also, including errors of diagnosis, the potential for selfish and sometimes predatory behaviour by family members, and commercially motivated decisions by nursing homes, hospices, and hospitals.