The current Australian euthanasia laws should be changed to the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. Under current common law, not enough protection is provided to certain stakeholders who could be easily coerced into death against their will. The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act provides the extra protection needed against this abuse. The general Australian public agrees to euthanasia, and the benefits of it greatly outweigh the negatives. The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, with one minor change, will provide a greater protection against death against a patient's will than common law.

Lloyd Duhaime (1995) states that euthanasia can be defined as `the putting to death, by painless method, of a terminally-ill or severely debilitated person through the omission (intentionally withholding a life-saving medical procedure, also known as "passive euthanasia") or commission of an act ("active euthanasia'). Under current Australian common law, passive euthanasia is...