sia, then don't use it, but please do not deny the right to me." He said that no religious group should "demand that I behave according to their rules and endure unnecessary intractable pain until some doctor in his omniscience decides that I have had enough and increases the morphine until I die." In the presence of his wife and doctor, he initiated the process that gave him a lethal drug injection. The Most Reverend Harry Goodhew, Anglican Archbishop of Sidney denounced the case on 1996-OCT-7; he said: "The moral shape of our nation is under threat with the first legally sanctioned euthanasia death in the Northern Territory, and so is the relationship between doctors and their patients. It has now been shown to us what this means [sic] doctors are no longer those who save lives. Under the Northern Territory law they are also those who kill...We must feel the deep grief of the wife of the one who died, and also understand the human pain which brought about this ending of a man's life. But these facts cannot be allowed to persuade us that this action was right. It is morally wrong. I cannot approve it from any point of view." A second terminally ill person obtained physician assistance in dying on 1997-JAN-7. She was Janet Mills, age 52, who suffered from a rare form of skin cancer that causes the skin to disintegrate. The Anglican Dean of Sydney, Boak Jobbins, said the latest death was another day of shame for Australia. He said, "Quite clearly we are a nation that has come to the end of its resources...We no longer have anything to offer the terminally ill, the aged or the disabled but a quick exit at the end of a needle." On 1997-MAR-25, the Australian Senate disallowed the Northern Province's law. The vote was 38 to 33. This passed the bill into law, since it had already been approved by the lower house. This action is directly opposed to public opinion. In addition to the polling results cited above, a nation-wide poll of nurse...