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Polling has put support for the legislation, one of two referendums put to voters during the general election earlier this month, at above 60 percent. The road to the End of Life Choice Bill, which took place at the same time as the election, began five years ago with lawyer Lecretia Seales. After being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour Seales wanted very much to remain alive, but her husband Matt Vickers says she was frustrated by the lack of personal autonomy for those facing terminal illnesses and the lack of political will to address the issue. Seales brought a case before the courts arguing that euthanasia should not be interpreted as suicide under the Crimes Act because it was not a question of life or death, but whether a person was suffering on the way to an inevitable death. She also argued it was her right not to be subject to cruel or degrading treatment under the Bill of Rights Act. Seales did not win her case and died in , hours after her family received a negative judgement from the Wellington High Court. The whole process has been incredibly positive. Euthanasia Is Not An Acceptable Choice Of

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Back to Videos. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reveals that the reason for her ongoing quarantine is that her partner, Susan, whom the MSNBC host affectionately called "the center of my universe," tested positive for COVID and is still recovering from severe symptoms, and used the Acxeptable as an opportunity to tell viewers that the nation needs to "recalibrate" how it views COVID in terms of acceptable risk.

Frankly the country needs you to recalibrate that, because there is no room for you in the hospital anymore. And the only way to ensure that is to ensure that you do not get infected," she continued.

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