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2. Living Men and Women
 
  2.3 Standards of a human adult  
  Article 79-Terminal illness and dying with dignity  
79.1 The right to a quality and dignified life  
  It is an essential principle of this Code that all humans have a right to a quality and dignified life.  
  Laws or belief systems that enforce life without any consideration of the quality of life shall always considered barbaric, cruel and against the very meaning of life they claim to cherish.  
79.2 The right to die with dignity  
  It is an essential principle of this Code that all adult humans have the right to choose to die with dignity.  
  Human technology enables life to be sustained and perpetuated far beyond the scope of previous generations. With these gifts, Living Men and Women can be saved and repaired. Yet it is also true that Living Men and Women can be extended beyond a point whereby the quality of life is marginal.  
  A solitary bed in a hospital or elderly home should not become the standard path to which all our lives inevitably end. Instead, our society should strive to enable its citizens to die well just as they have lived well, in the comfort of home, in the presence of love, in a state of peace.  
  As a state must never arbitrate on the life and death of its citizens, it must rest on the choice of the individual to find a balance between life and science and the quality of personal life.  
  Belief systems or laws that make no consideration for the essential right of a person to choose to die with dignity shall always be considered barbaric, cruel and against the very meaning of life and the principles of this Code.  
79.3 Application for certificate of assisted medical death  
  A person who wishes to die with dignity must apply and be approved for a certificate of assisted medical death prior to any attempt is made to end their life. All certificates must be approved by either a magistrate or judge of the court or an official nominated for the purpose of handling such applications.  
  A person who assists a person to end their life or further seriously injur life where no approved certificate of assisted medical death is in place shall be guilty of a serious criminal offence and even the crime of murder.  
  All certificates of assisted medical death must be issued in accordance to the qualification criteria for an approved certificate of assisted medical death listed in this article.  
79.4 Qualification Criteria for an approved certificate of assisted medical death  
  Approval of any application for a certificate of assisted medical death may only be issued upon the meeting all of the following criteria. No certificate of assisted medical death is permitted to be issued without all of the following qualification criteria being met.  
  The approval of a certificate without all of the following minimum qualification criteria being met shall be considered a serious crime.  
  The minimum qualification for an approved certificate of assisted medical death are:  
  (i) That the person making the request is the person for whom the certificate is to be issued, or has direct authority by the person to make the application on their behalf;  
  (ii) That the person to whom the certificate is proposed to be issued is of sound mind and understands the consequences of their request and does so without any force, threat, false promise or inducement against them or their family;  
  (iii) That the person to whom the certificate is proposed is suffering a serious illness that may or may not be immediately life threatening, but which has severely and demonstrably impaired the present and future quality and dignity of their life;  
  (iv) That the person to whom the certificate is proposed has expressed a firm desire to end their life through medical assistance at a time of place of their choosing ahead of any natural occurance of death.  
79.5 Minimal delay in reviewing application for certificate of assisted medical death  
  By this Code, all applications for certificate of assisted medical death must be reviewed and approved or declined within 30 days of receiving the application, whereupon a mandatory 30 day cooling-off period shall be required before the certificate takes effect.  
  No court order or mechanism of delay shall be legally permissable in delaying the processing and validation of a certificate of assisted medical death unless the person(s) making such an application have evidence that such an application was made contrary to the requirements stated in this article and the person has a direct association with the person to whom the application applies.  
79.6 Suspension of any life insurance or benefits of death  
  By this Code, the approval of any certificate of assisted medical death shall automatically invalidate any life insurance and/or benefits to be paid in the event of the death of a person to whom a certificate has been issued.  
79.7 Approved method and location for assisted medical death  
  All methods used to induce an assisted medical death must be according to the List of Approved Methods for Assisted Medical Death maintained by the department of Health of United-Australia.  
  All methods must be medically supervised, must be painless to the person to whom such method is administered, must not involve any kind of severe or unusual method of death and above all must maintain a sense of dignity.  
  All locations for assisted medical death must be prior approved and themselves certified for such actions. Given this legal requirement, a persons home is generally considered unsuitable for the execution of a certificate of assisted medical death.  
79.8 Non-permission to use any organs or tissues of a person who has died through a medically assisted death  
  By this code it shall be a serious crime to use any of the organs, or tissues of a person who has died through a medically assisted death under an approved certificate of assisted medical death.  
  Even if the person to whom the certificate was issued and the order carried out requested that their body be donated, this Code shall take precedence and no tissue of any kind may be permitted to be removed other than subject to any official Coronial inquest.  
     
 
 

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