Ms Giddings and Greens’ leader Cassy O’Connor have co-sponsored a Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill and hope to secure enough support to pass the lower house. 

The former Labor premier confirmed she had approached Liberal members of parliament, seeking support for the bill.

While she would not name who she had approached, Ms Giddings remained hopeful someone would join Labor and the Greens in leading the fight for assisted suicide.

"The door remains open to have someone from the other side of politics involved in it,” she said.

“The time has come for the parliament to grapple with this piece of important legislation.”

The former premier hoped state government members would be able to "freely use their conscience" and "don’t feel bound to party political agendas that might impede on their decision making".

“I would be very surprised if there wasn’t a conscience vote,” Ms Giddings said. 

“There normally is on these issues.”

Ms Giddings said she was working to find an “appropriate date” for the parliament and allow time to consider the palliative care report. 

The report was released on Thursday last week but Ms Giddings did not expect it to have a significant affect on the Assisted Dying Bill.

This is the third dying with dignity Bill to be presented to the Tasmanian Parliament since 2009. 

The first secured seven votes from five Greens and two Labor MPs.

Several years later the Dying with Dignity Bill 2013 was narrowly lost with the then Liberal Opposition voting as a bloc against the reform.

Ms Giddings hangs the hopes of the latest Assisted Dying bill on the parliament recognising growing support for euthanasia across the world.

“Since the Bill was first debated in parliament in 2010 there has been a lot of work done in other jurisdictions,” she said, pointing to places a form of assisted dying laws such as Canada. 

“We are confident legislation is robust and sensible.”

In 2013, an EMRS poll showed 80 per cent of Tasmanians supported legalising dying with dignity.

She said the legislation was needed to provide "assistance to people suffering right now in our community".

Ms Giddings spoke of the situation acclaimed Australian author Nikki Gemmell faced.

Ms Gemmell’s elderly mother Elayn took her own life after suffering from chronic foot pain following a failed operation.

Ms Gemmell’s brother Paul recently told the ABC’s Australian Story how his mother “ate pills like lollies and drank Baileys Irish Cream until she fell asleep”. 

"That is an absolute tragedy,” Ms Giddings said.

"That story is happening across the nation.

“These are the people we're worried about – those that are continuing to suffer.”

In 1995 Australia was the first country in the world to legalise assisted dying.

The law in the Northern Territory lasted only eight months before the federal government intervened and overturned the law.

Ms Giddings said assisted dying was the only way to stop people being "driven to suicide or dying a painful death".

“We know that no matter how wonderful our palliative care system is – we know regardless of that there are some people's pain and suffering can not be alleviated,” she said. 

When announcing the legislation in November 2016 Ms O’Connor said “reform is long overdue”.

“It is a terrible and undeniable truth that there are Tasmanians who are forced to suffer through incurable, irreversible medical conditions against their wishes,” she said.

“Some have and will take matters into their own hands, choosing to die a lonely death because their suffering is intolerable and cannot be relieved.

“We can and must provide a safe, compassionate legal framework for Tasmanians who are in this awful position.”

Tasmanian euthanasia advocate Helena Lettau lives a quiet but busy life at Grindelwald.

The Swiss, German and Australian national joined Ms Giddings and Ms O’Connor in 2016 to launch the latest attempt at Assisted Dying laws in Tasmania.

A paper petition started by Ms Lettau to support assisted dying gained more than 400 signatures. 

Ms Lettau regularly travels to Switzerland and last year she used a trip to discuss options.

“I had a talk with euthanasia service people to know exactly what they want from me if I decide to take my last hour,” she said. 

“It's absolutely marvelous how the Sweeds work with this. 

“I can go over to Switzerland anytime i feel my hour has come or I feel my time is right.”

After learning about the Swiss process Ms Lettau said a similar facility should be open in Australia, particularly Tasmania.

“Patients lie down and they say goodbye,” she said. 

“They drink sips, and it's peacefully sleeping forever within about ten minutes.

“It's perfect.”

When asked about the prospect of legalising Assisted Dying in Tasmania Ms Lettau said she “can not wish something better”.