'Dogma should never trump compas...
Lord George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, has written an open letter to NS...
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Diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, Siobhan O'Sullivan has a simple message to U...
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As a NSW resident, Mark Springer had to travel to Switzerland to die with dignity. H...
Read the full storyOne step closer to assisted dyin...
The Upper House has voted to send the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill to a final readi...
Read the full storyThe law robbed my mum of the dea...
Linda says he mother Margot's lingering decline from multiple sclerosis was a natura...
Read the full story'I can't forgive MPs who vote ag...
Bertie Daniel was 15 when his father Lawrie, who was suffering with Multiple Scleros...
Read the full storyHe could utter only two words - ...
When Tom Barry asked how he was going to die from his metastatic facial cancer docto...
Read the full storyWatching dad suffer confirmed ev...
When Dad died, writes Susan, I was relieved his suffering was over. Had Volunt... Read the full story
We can make our deaths so much b...
Amahl Haradasa died cruelly of motor neurone disease... Read the full story
‘I’m sorry to go this way’
Desperately ill with three kinds of cancer and without access to a voluntary assiste...
Read the full storyShe was not treated humanely
Doctors assured Maryanne Platt that palliative care would ease her mother Philomena’...
Read the full storyHe begged me to help him take hi...
When Scone man Ray Philpott's lung cancer spread, the pain became unbearable. His da...
Read the full storyThere was only pain, there was n...
My husband Bruce died in February. He should have died at Christmas-time because tha...
Read the full storyIt is Venessa's time to have a v...
I am a senior pain specialist. I lost my wife three years ago. At the age of 42 and ...
Read the full story'Don't make people suffer'
"It was so hard to watch a man who had so much dignity, die without it," says ... Read the full story
What I witnessed should never ha...
After witnessing her mother Leonie's death from pancreatic cancer, Amanda Leach is c...
Read the full storyI want to decide for myself
Bruce Fox wants to avoid a painful end of life. "It's about quality not quantity. In...
Read the full story'This suffering is just plain wr...
Ari Levanael watched his dad Barry die a slow and painful death "drugged out of his ...
Read the full storyI have MND. I know what lies ahe...
My greatest hope is that people in New South Wales will see the sense in voluntary a...
Read the full storyI am furious that others should ...
Dear Member of Parliament, on Voluntary Assisted Dying I feel it very important to a...
Read the full storyI have no option but to travel
It's six years since I was diagnosed with lung cancer and still hard to believe how ...
Read the full storyKeith Potger
Australian music legend Keith Potger has lent his support to calls for voluntary ass...
Read the full storyHarl Hogan, Gabrielle's husband
My husband and I had been Members of Dying With Dignity (NSW) for thirty years. We h...
Read the full storyMargaret's mother
My mother passed away in 2002 at age of 82.
She was an asthmatic from 6 month...
Read the full storyL.P.'s mother, Joyce
My mother Joyce was born 18th January 1927 and passed 16 February 2016.
Mum w...
Read the full storyMy mum, Betty Swanton
I am exasperated, devastated, and relieved. I’ve experienced these emotions during t...
Read the full storyTim Cooper
I’ve been suffocating for two years. I was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmon...
Read the full storyGeoffrey Derrick, Coralie's father
Father loved to do practical things and tha...
Read the full storyLawrie Daniel
When life hurts more than death, when suffering overtake... Read the full story
Elizabeth's dearest friend
After much thought I am forwarding to you one of the last messages my dearest friend...
Read the full storyKen Dickson, husband and father
Our beautiful Dad took his own life on Friday 9 October 2015 at the home he shared w...
Read the full storyMy sister, Trish
My sister Patricia Ellard died in August 20...
Read the full storyMy brave father, Russell
This is the story of my brave, sensitive and loving father. Russell Alfred Walker wa...
Trapped in a body that let him ...
While on my first placement as a student nurse in a nursing home I cared for a patie...
Read the full storyAnn-Louise's mum
I lost my mum three years ago at the age of 87. She was doing so well for her age bu...
Read the full storyMy husband, Wayne
It turns out goodbyes are important.
Read the full storyDeb's final days
’ll give you an example of one night that was probably in the last 10 days of Deb’s ...
Read the full storyMy mother, Edna Fitzgerald
Ever since having seen my late mother, Edna Fitzgerald, suffer so much when all she ...
Read the full storyJuliana's father
My father’s death was kind and loving.
Read the full storyMy dad
My father originally appointed four persons who could make a euthanasia decision for...
Read the full storyMeg's dad
My dad died this year from a brain tumour.
Read the full storyMichele's father
My father died of lung cancer in the mid-1980s.
Read the full storyJohn Grayson: my story
In 2014 I had a cold. It was very painful and on 10 November 2014 I experienced the ...
Read the full storyJohn's mother
Eleven years ago, my mother had a stroke and took seven months to die.
Read the full storyKit, Judith's mother
My mother, Catherine (Kit) Sanotti, was a fit, healthy, vibrant 73-year-old woman.
Read the full storyGloria, my mum
My mum, Gloria Mable Ohma, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in her late 30...
Read the full storyThe law robbed us of a final far...
As a nurse and midwife, I’ve witnessed life’s first and last breaths many times.
Read the full storyDr Westwood's mother
I’m a retired physician. I had been working for over 50 years in my profession, firs...
Read the full storyElvie's story
I am an ex-nurse and, in my later years, studied a diploma of social sciences. In bo...
Read the full storyMy mum, Betty
My mum, Betty, had a wonderfully full life.
Read the full storySue's brother
My brother Paul had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer that had spread t...
Read the full storyMum
Dear Mum, I’m so sorry I didn’t kill you.
I came close, believe me. The pillo...
Read the full storyLady Winifred Stephen
In January 2016 Lady Stephen wrote Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull an open letter di...
Read the full storyMiriam's mother, Dorothy
My story is on behalf of and in memory of my mother, Dorothy Joan Meikle, a staunch ...
Read the full storyMy mother's best friend
Three years, eight months and 28 days ago, I was left a letter from my mother’s best...
Read the full storyLoredana's story
I have advanced, progressive multiple sclerosis. I am totally disabled and can’t mov...
Read the full storyJohn, Jessie's love
John had suffered for five years with terminal bowel cancer.
Read the full storyCoral's patients
eople’s bodies at end of life do amazing things. Bones break. Organs fail.
Read the full storyDr Geoff's patient
I had a fully paralysed patient on life support with end stage neuromuscular disease...
Read the full storyAnn's bestie, Rhoda
Her suffering defied belief. My bestie, Rhoda, was the outgoing one of our group.
Read the full storyMy friend, Graham
On 27 December my friend Graham had no idea he’d spend the next 10 weeks on a rough ...
Read the full storyRachel's mum
I lost my mum last month. She had pancreatic cancer.
Read the full storyBettina's mother
My strong, wonderful mother had a living will and was determined to avoid the fate o...
Read the full storyBill's beliefs
I am a 90-year-old EDA veteran affairs pensioner. I have recently arrived home from ...
Read the full storyMy father, David
Isn’t it strange, the various pathways that lead us to the world of voluntary euthan...
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