The regulation of euthanasia by the criminal law has tended to be one of the more
contentious areas of medical law, and continues to be the subject of debate. Few areas of
the criminal law have been so consistently the target of reformist pressure, and certainly few
areas have so strongly resisted change. Understandably, legislators are unwilling to involve
themselves in a matter of law reform which engenders such moral disagreement, and it is
significant that only two jurisdictions–The Netherlands and the Australian Northern …