[2] Her ideas on the end of life, the right to die, and assisted death, have prompted controversy worldwide.
[3] Many people, including the former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia, Marshall Perron, credit Kuhse's work as the inspiration for the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.
[4] In 1996, Perron told a public forum that it was after reading one of Kuhse's papers that he was prompted to introduce the Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill into Parliament.
Kuhse has served on a number of ethics committees, and has been an expert advisor to Australian parliaments considering euthanasia legislation.
with Peter Singer, catapulted her into the public arena at a time when she was still finishing her PhD in philosophy.