The proposed legislation is aimed exclusively at "individuals who are suffering and dying", a review update from the Queensland Law Reform Commission states.

"It is not intended to apply to individuals who wish to die because they are tired of life or in decline, but who are not dying," QLRC Chair Peter Applegarth said in the May review.

"This fact may disappoint those individuals and supporters of a broad-based scheme for voluntary euthanasia or medically assisted suicide.

"It also may allay the fears of others that a voluntary assisted dying scheme would be generally accessible for those who do not wish to go on living."

The state government will consider the draft bill and a final report compiled by the commission before they're tabled in parliament and made public.

Both must be tabled within 14 sitting days of receipt.

Victoria is the only Australian state in which voluntary assisted dying is active, and Western Australia and Tasmania have passed their own laws

South Australia is also a step closer to having a voluntary assisted dying regime after the state's upper house recently passed legislation.

Queensland is expected to debate the laws later this year and Labor MP Duncan Pegg, who's set to resign amid ongoing cancer treatment, spoke frankly as someone who has been fighting the disease for 18 months.

"I will not tell members how to vote your conscience, but before making a decision I encourage every MP in this place to make sure they speak to and listen to people with terminal illnesses and their families," he told parliament last month.

Mr Pegg said he had been attending cancer clinics as part of his treatment and regularly spoke with patients with terminal illness.

Australian Associated Press