Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Mr Speaker. Twenty-five years ago I held my father's hand as he died and he died with massive amounts of morphine in his system. He was someone who was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer and given a few weeks to live. He lived six weeks and in that time he held court for his friends from the RSA to come and visit him and he was able to be farewelled by us individually.When his body collapsed he went to Matamata Pohlen Hospital and he knew to say I have terrible pain. I need morphine." He got morphine and he got morphine and he got morphine and one day later he was dead. He died without losing his dignity.I have always been opposed to euthanasia as of right on the basis that people like my dad got to essentially tell everybody when they wanted to go and I thought that was available to everybody. It's not available to everybody. It's not available for people like my dad who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and without a family saying "You give my dad everything he needs." That's the shame of this.I have always been very concerned about coercion that could be brought upon vulnerable people and it is something that as a lawyer who has 20 years' experience before I came to this place—I have seen people try to manipulate parents and others who are vulnerable. So when I spoke with David Seymour about this issue he assured me and showed me exactly what he wanted to put into the committee stage of this bill to deal with those concerns. I am concerned that the Justice Committee for whatever reason was not able to properly amend this bill in the way that I think many submitters would have expected it to do. I don't know what those reasons were but it clearly did not do what most people would expect. That is I think unfortunate for the submitters. It's also very unfortunate for David Seymour who in my time politics has done more than anybody to give up a ministerial career as he did an opportunity to be a Minister to keep this bill going through as a private member. That is a huge commitment and it's not one that I think many other people in Parliament would do and that is actually because it's a genuine belief. Mr Seymour may be occasionally extremely irritating—extremely—but that does not mean to say he does not have very genuinely held beliefs and he has showed utter commitment on this. I've talked to many people about this issue. It's troubled me for a long time and this year I have been very troubled by it because I've felt that having been opposed to it I was on the wrong side. I am on the wrong side of it in opposing it. I'm on the right side now saying that everybody deserves some dignity in their lives. I talked to Amy Adams about her mother dying—it is awful to think that people are eaten away by something losing their face told that one day they could die when the cancer breaks through to their brain. What a dreadful thing to do and there are options. Somebody shouldn't have to say like my dad did "I have so much pain I need morphine." and to have his children saying "Please give my father more morphine." because that's what he wanted. I would do it again. It's the right thing to do and it preserved his dignity and I am very shocked and saddened to hear that so many people don't have that. Thank you Mr Speaker."