Living wills
Discussion Paper
A Discussion Paper on "living wills", or advance directives, and their potential in the mental health area.
Responses to discussion paper
NOTE: Because of requests from several organisations, we are still accepting submissions in response to this paper. Comments or submissions regarding living wills can be sent by e-mail to disabdis@hreoc.gov.au or by mail to the Disability Rights Policy Unit, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, GPO Box 5218, Sydney 1042. The following submissions already provided electronically to the Commission are now available on line.
Mark Lacey (Grampians Psychiatric Services)
NSW Association for Mental Health
Office of the Public Advocate South Australia
Office of the Public Advocate Western Australia
Office of the Public Guardian NSW
Brad Wronski (Disability Action South Australia)
These documents are posted on this site for public information. They are not documents of the Commission and should not be taken to represent the Commission's views.
Further submissions will be added as they are received.