The death of 23-year-old Lily Thai helped raise awareness about end-of-life choice in South Australia, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has said in its latest quarterly report.

New figures show eleven terminally ill people in South Australia ended their suffering using voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in the first three months of the law’s operation.

Deb and Ron Baker, who are both living with cancer, have welcomed South Australia's passing of a Voluntary Assisted Dying law. “Finally politicians have listened to their constituents."

South Australian Liz Habermann, whose terminally ill son Rhys took his life in 2017, has a message for MPs ahead of the final vote on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill. "We as a state need you to step up for those unable to: People with a terminal illness, facing an uncertain death, who do not have the energy nor the time to fight for this Bill but who desperately want it passed."

A former novice nun, Jane Qualmann has no qualms about rejecting some tenets of her deep Catholic faith. Living with a bowel condition that threatens her life every time she eats, the South Australian grandmother firmly believes in voluntary assisted dying as an end-of-life option.

Ceara Rickard is facing a desperate dilemma. The 35 year-old has to choose between dying in Tasmania - a state where she lives and which has now legalised medical assistance to die - or being surrounded by family and friends at her home in South Australia, where there is currently no such law.

Julie Barrien has terminal endometrial cancer. She is urging South Australian MPs to continue to show the “great statesmanship” they displayed during the COVID-19 crisis, by legalising voluntary assisted dying.

Hi, my name is Kym Watson. On the 10th April 2014, I was diagnosed with one non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in my neck.

I lost both of my parents to terminal cancer.  My Dad died in 1993 nursed at home by my mother and he had no wish to use euthanasia to end his life.  He died peacefully with my Mum by his side and my brother and I in attendance.

My mother, Anne Holland, had Parkinson's disease. She knew that this would eventually kill her but she wanted to get the maximum out of life before that happened. She arranged her affairs and spent 4 years in nursing home care before she deteriorated.