Testimonies

I live in Victoria, where Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) legislation was i...

On 9 July 2019, Kerry Robertson, 61, became the first Victorian to be gran...

Friends, my story will take about four minutes to read.  I’m asking you to...

Felicity has more than fifteen years of professional social work experienc...

You’ll find Peter B. Williams, 64...

My name is Elizabeth Short. Over the last 11 years I have lost three close...

My dad was a saw-miller all his life, and at the end it was hard to stop h...

My father was diagnosed with cancer of the lower oesophagus and stomach af...

I’m sitting here in tears because I don’t even know where to start, I cann...

I guess the best place to start is where ‘our’ journey all...

My life partner, Mark Brennan, was born in 1948, and ended his own life on...

My mother, Jan Scott Ryder, was a beautiful woman who adored her family an...

I am Kass Hall and I have been been living on borrowed time for 27 years.

Sandra Morris never felt ready to say goodbye to her partner of over 40 ye...

My name is Susan and I was Colin’s full time carer for over 9 years. We we...

I want to be able to choose.

Carolyn Forster, 48, is the queen...

Phyllis Woodger remembers the taxi pulling up outside her Frankston home.

Andrew Carswell was an award-winning musician with innovative bands such a...

Beverley Randall didn't tell her family when she was diagnosed with lung c...

My beautiful Dad, Alastair, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer when ...

On 2 September 2015, after writing a letter each to my brother and me, com...

Ten years ago, my partner died by his own hand in the best possible circum...

I am a man, fifty-seven years old. My life is filled with love and happine...

Michelle has seen a number of fam...

My mother-in-law suffered from multiple myeloma, a very painful bone cance...

Giuseppe Coco wasn’t a complicated man, nor a judgmental one, and he follo...

It says much about Bill Bailey that he joined the British army at seventee...

"Can I have an injection now?"  My mother asked her very dedicated G.P. at...

My father asked me whether he could end his life. My fat...

As a young bloke, my Dad was a talented sports-person. He played football ...

"This story is a celebration of life and love and a testament on how to li...

Like many older Australians, a group of residents of Cherry Tre...

It was six years ago when Justine Martin was diagnosed with Multiple Scler...

I am a 60-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with primary peritoneal ca...

Margaret Maxwell was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1994. She researched ...

On too many occasions as a Division One Registered Nurse off duty, and on ...

My grandfather was a proud and passionate man who really lived up to his r...

Coronor John Olle's evidence to the Victorian In...

My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 25. By 39 she had died o...

I have just turned 41. A pretty big life event for many, but in my case es...