COMMENT: Good, well-funded, universally accessible palliative care is the answer.

Greens say they will spend up large to try and win in Nick Smith's electorate.

Matt Vickers says his late wife who fought for euthanasia law would have liked the irony.

Audrey Young: David Seymour's first priority should be to his Act Party.

A vote on legalising euthanasia could be closer than predicted.

Comment: It was pure coincidence that two bills were drawn that complement each other.

COMMENT: Matt Vickers for and Bob McCoskrie against euthanasia.

COMMENT: The long, fraught process to deciding on a right to die has only just begun.

Susan Austen, a member of pro-euthanasia group Exit Wellington, appeared in court today.

COMMENT: Though the right to die committee is still hearing submissions, its members probably feel they have heard all the arguments.

Wellington journalist David Barber explains how his wife's experience of early onset Alzheimer's have affected his own decisions about dying.

A marketing manager left tetraplegic after falling awkwardly at home pleaded with doctors to switch off his ventilator machine.

Kiwis split along demographic lines on euthanasia.

New Zealand's new Prime Minister is a former farmer and literature student from smalltown Southland who once described himself as "specialising in being boring".

It has been more than 20 years since the first major effort in New Zealand to promote legalised euthanasia.

Labour MP Louisa Wall says her proposed law change to legalise assisted dying in New Zealand will not go into the private member's bill ballot.

MP Louisa Wall championed the right of everyone to marry. She has now tabled a Bill that sets out a process for terminally ill person to legally end life.

A major inquiry into euthanasia is taking place, but the Govt has already concluded it will not lead to any changes in New Zealand.

Judith Collins will not be drawn on whether police acted illegally when targeting euthanasia advocates.

The police tactic of gathering details of individuals by setting up a drink-drive checkpoint would seem to stray from the powers granted to police under the Land Transport Act.

The woman who is believed to have sparked a controversial police investigation into a pro-euthanasia group has been identified.

Police officers' use of a drink-driving checkpoint to track pro-euthanasia campaigners has been described as worrying abuse of power by legal experts.

Police have admitted setting up a drink-drive checkpoint near a euthanasia meeting.

A terminally ill man has told Parliament he wants the right to choose to end his life when his pain and suffering becomes too great.

Police have seized items from the homes of elderly women in Wellington and Nelson which has sparked criticism of political interference from a voluntary euthanasia group.

Having the choice was what mattered to Lecretia.

In Australia a vet is calling for pet ownership to be restricted to permanent residents, after he rehomed a dog that was dumped on the streets by an international student.

Parliament's Health Committee has heard several emotional submissions from the public during hearings on voluntary euthanasia.

COMMENT: Last week Matthew Jansen took umbrage at my statement that his exploitation of a Belgian teen's death to further his cause was vile.

COMMENT: The Human Rights Commission has given what it calls the "orange light" to euthanasia. Let's not run this orange. Let's stop while we can.