Jan Cumner’s mother Dorothy was 80 when she suffered back pain that turned out...

As Virginia Fewster’s late husband Michael became in...

Dying from soft-tissue cancer, Marie Jansen's husband of 52 years feared a pai...

Gary Lobley's partner Jeff died in 1993 from AIDS. “...

Allison Bowman’s father Stephen died seven months af...

Phil Browne is a registered nurse, palliative care w...

"She said, ‘We don’t let animals suffer like this’ and she begged my eldest brother ...

My sister Gay suffered the most awful, unimaginable and intolerable pain. Her death ...

Lydia*, a nurse of more than 30 years, has watched as countless people die. She is u...

Vicky Crichton says she was broken, listening to the...

Damon Spina was 39 when he was delivered the harrowi...

In her 20s, Michelle Reid lost both her parents within five months of each other. No...

Suffering intolerably with rapidly progressing motor neurone disease (MND) Queenslan...

In March 2015, Gayl Gray was diagnosed with brain cancer. Just nine weeks later, her...

Assistant nurse Kay Lang has watched two close friends die horribly from cancer. She...

Terry Gladman's best friend and partner of 30 years,...

Karen Ireland's twin sister Kim is in the final stages of an agressive brain tumour....

Rosie Mott ended her life - alone - when she could n...

Cathy Herbert’s mother Ursula died in 2017 at the ag...

Sharon Stretton’s son Daniel was born with the conne...

The best palliative care in the world would not have stopped Matt Downey's pain and ...

"I want to go when people remember me as being peaceful and able to say goodbye," sa...

My mother suffered horrendously. I implore the government to take urgent action to l...

Our beautiful Mum, Beryl, passed away just before midnight on Wednesday 31 July, 201...

As at June 2019, I am living with Stage IV incurable metastatic breast cancer. I am ...

I held my mother's hand until her last breath. She had metastatic melanoma and had f...

In January 2016 my mother was diagnosed with stage 5 peritoneal cancer - a type of c...

My sister Michelle was originally diagnosed with cervical cancer 12 years before she...

We always knew it would happen. Our father said many times that they treat animals h...

I was diagnosed with a rare form of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) 25 years ago. It ended m...

When Channel 7's Sunrise Facebook page asked viewers if medically assisted dying sho...

She was the first person who ever asked for my medical opinion, so I suppose that ma...

At the age of 73, my mother, Dulcie May Turton, was told she had a neuroendocrine tu...

I have melanoma. I’ve kept it at bay for 10 years but it is now untreatable.

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Emeritus Professor Ian Maddocks is an eminent palliative care specialist and Senior ...