The AGE argues that those terminally ill patients who suffer from unbearable pain and their loved ones will most benefit from the option of assisted death as palliative care cannot suppress all terminal pain.
On top of that, the paper says, the option should prevent some of the tragic and violent suicides by such people in agony.
It also points out that assisted dying and palliative care are both crucial and are not mutually exclusive and the legislation should help many Victorians have a better death.
The AGE hopes the upper house pass the bill into law.
The passage of the bill in Victoria is expected to herald assisted death legislation in other Australian states.
