Comment: Euthanasia has skyrocketed in ALL Western countries and is accelerating at an out-of-control unnatural rate of deaths never ever envisioned…but why, as the people have no answers from their governments for these exploding vast numbers of mortalities that are now being called death by suicide and what it was never intended for when the Laws were created…
Pip: World Freedom — where the news lands with the weight of a policy document and the urgency of a fire alarm. Today we’re in territory that asks how far a law can travel from its original promise before it becomes something else entirely.
Mara: bettyhill has been tracking exactly that question, and the ground we’re covering today is assisted dying in Australia — the numbers, the safeguards, and what the expansion of the law actually means in practice.
Pip: Let’s start with Victoria’s euthanasia figures, because the arithmetic alone tells a story.
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Euthanasia Deaths Surge 400% in Victoria
Mara: The central tension here is whether a law designed with strict limits can hold those limits once it’s running — and Victoria’s data gives us a live case study.
Pip: The post quotes Right to Life UK chief executive Alisdair Hungerford-Morgan directly on the trajectory: “Euthanasia deaths in Victoria have risen by 400% in five years and they rose by nearly 60% in the last year alone. Sadly, as in other jurisdictions, once assisted dying is made legal, often more and more people have their lives ended every year.”
Mara: So the upshot is that the growth isn’t a spike — it’s a sustained climb. Victoria recorded 512 deaths through assisted suicide and euthanasia in the 2025-26 reporting year, a 31.62% increase from the previous year’s 389. Since legalization in 2019, 2,188 people have died through these practices.
Pip: And the share of all deaths is the number that reframes everything. Assisted suicide and euthanasia now account for 1.1% of all deaths in Victoria — nearly four times the 0.3% recorded in the system’s first year.
Mara: The post also flags a sharp rise in applicants who did not access palliative care before applying — up from 118 in 2024-25 to 179 in 2025-26, an increase exceeding 50% in a single year. Only three applications in that same year were referred for an additional assessment of the patient’s decision-making capacity.
Pip: That last figure is the one that sits uncomfortably. Fewer checks, more deaths, and the government’s response is to expand the program.
Mara: Specifically: the eligibility window doubles from six months to twelve for most conditions, doctors will be permitted to raise assisted dying without being asked, the third assessment for neurodegenerative conditions is eliminated, and the waiting period between first and final requests drops from nine days to five. The Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has already stated it “expects further growth in applications following the legislative change.”
Pip: Hungerford-Morgan closes with a line that connects Victoria directly to the Westminster debate: “People nearing the end of their lives deserve protection and the best possible care, not a pathway to suicide.” The post also points readers toward Canada’s figures, where euthanasia deaths have surpassed U.S. gun homicides — a comparison that suggests Victoria is not an outlier so much as a data point on a longer arc.
Mara: And that arc — what happens when eligibility expands and safeguards contract simultaneously — is the question the numbers keep raising.
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Pip: A 400% rise in five years, and the legislative response is to widen the door further. The slope Hungerford-Morgan describes isn’t hypothetical anymore — it has a spreadsheet.
Mara: Next time we’ll see what other territories are grappling with as these laws travel. The pattern, it turns out, is the story.
