How can people “tolerate a horrendous murder rate” and “slaughter on roads” yet allow “the government to refuse a suffering person a dignified death”?

That’s one of the questions posed by Judge Hans Fabricius in the written judgment explaining his reasons for allowing Robin Stransham-Ford a doctor’s assistance to die‚ the newspaper reported.

While Fabricius conceded he could not tell the government what to do‚ his ruling encourages Parliament to give “serious consideration” to a law legalising euthanasia.

The draft law should be based on the 1998 Law Reform Commission report on assisted suicide and viewed through the lens of the Bill of Rights‚ the paper said

Stransham-Ford‚ who was suffering from terminal cancer‚ died hours before the verdict was handed down.