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While there will always be a risk of abuse of vulnerable patients, the film overstates the risk of this occurring when proper legislative measures are in place. The potential for vulnerable people to be exploited is an ethical issue often raised by anti-euthanasia campaigners. When Dr Farmer is struggling to obtain the required number of signatures from local doctors so she can go ahead with the euthanasia, her disappointment is related to her own reputation, rather than Rex’s wish to die with dignity. She appears on television chat shows and radio talkback, while Rex grows impatient with the red tape wrapped around the new law. While Last Cab to Darwin does show Rex’s anguish in living with an excruciating terminal illness, the film is certainly not a pro-euthanasia tale.ĭr Nicole Farmer appears far more interested in her own fame than her patient’s best interests.
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While there will always be a risk of abuse of vulnerable patients, the film overstates the risk of this occurring when proper legislative measures are in place.” “The potential for vulnerable people to be exploited is an ethical issue often raised by anti-euthanasia campaigners. The film was originally a play and is based on the true story of terminally ill Max Bell, who drove his cab from Broken Hill to Darwin in 1996 to try and access recently legalised euthanasia from Dr Philip Nitschke.
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Along the way, he is joined by Tilly (Mark Coles Smith), a young Aboriginal man from Oodnadatta, and an English nurse-turned-bartender, Julie (Emma Hamilton). He leaves his lover Polly (Ningali Lawford-Wolf) behind to drive his taxi across the country to Darwin to access euthanasia from Dr Nicole Farmer (Jacki Weaver).
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Rex (Michael Caton) is a taxi driver who has never left Broken Hill and who finds out his stomach cancer is now terminal. Last Cab to Darwin explores some of the tough ethical issues around euthanasia, but misses the opportunity to present a balanced view of the debate. While it seems that every second film deals with the topic of death, it is incredibly rare for a film to talk about euthanasia.