This Congress urges the state governments of Australia and the government of New Zealand to enact legislation which will permit an intolerably suffering person to request a willing doctor to assist them to die quickly and peacefully, and to render lawful the provision of such assistance.

IHEU Regional Congress, Australia, November 2000

The 14th Congress of the IHEU supports a change of the law with suitable safeguards to allow a competent person, who is incurably ill and suffering, to ask a willing doctor to assist them to die quickly and peacefully.

General Assembly, Mumbai, 15 January 1999

The 14th World Congress of the IHEU supports a change to the law in every country. This law would allow a competent person who is incurably ill and suffering, to ask a willing doctor to assist them to die quickly and peacefully.

World Congress 1999

We, the 6th IHEU Congress, declare our support on ethical grounds for beneficent voluntary euthanasia. We believe that reflective ethical consciousness has developed to a point that makes it possible for societies to work out a humane policy toward death and dying. We deplore moral insensitivity and legal restrictions that impede and oppose consideration of the ethical case for euthanasia. We appeal to an enlightened public opinion to transcend traditional taboos and to move in the direction of a compassionate view toward needless suffering in dying.