Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 from "death with dignity" and right to die groups who saw it as a model to be followed elsewhere, and widespread condemnation from euthanasia opponents, such as right to life groups, who sought to overturn it. Opponents also included the Australian Medical Association, and the Bishop of Darwin, Edmund John Patrick Collins. While the law was in effect, four people died by suicide through its provisions. The first was carpenter Bob Dent, 66, who died on 22 September 1996. Dent was a prostate cancer sufferer who became Australia's first person to lawfully end his life by means of physician assisted
Assisted suicide in the United States Protection Clause. However, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals decision in "Vacco v. Quill," 521 U.S. 793 (1997). In February 2015, New York state senators Brad Hoylman and Diane Savino introduced a "Death With Dignity Act" to allow physician-assisted suicide in the state. On September 7, 2017, in "Myers v. Schneiderman", the New York Court of Appeals held that terminally-ill persons did not possess a right to physician-assisted suicide under the New York State Constitution. In May 2017, a bill was passed by the state senate, which sought to legalize physician-assisted suicide. The Nevada Assembly