10% of suicides in WA are by people with a terminal illness. The effect on families ...

What if you could have a beautiful death? Free from suffering, in control and with y...

I graduated from medical school 40 years ago. Increasingly I have seen divisiveness ...

As one of Western Australia’s longest serving registered nurses and one of Australia...

I was driving when I heard Andrew Denton use the phrase 'Light a Fire' and knew that...

In 2009 my father was diagnosed with bowel cancer. By the time it was discovered, it...

My late husband JD loved Christmas more than anyone I’ve ever known. He did everythi...

My late father used to say that suffering from advanced emphysema was like gasping f...

Radio legend Howard Sattler stood up for the battlers and took on governments in his...

My aunt Roslyn Hamilton-Brown, my mother Eulalie Maria Celine Humphrey, and my fathe...

Georgina Burns, or Gina as she was known to friends, met her future husband and the ...

My father Ernest Alun Jones was a World War II veteran, a very stoic character.  I n...

My mother, Joan Freeth, died of breast cancer in a slow and painful death, propped u...

l'm a firm believer in life choices. That we all should have a choice if we want to ...

My father Leslie Hounsome died in 2006 at the age of 86. H...

When I was 19-years-old, I became the primary carer for my mum, who was in the advan...

An overwhelming majority of Australians, Allanah MacTiernan said, wanted the right t...

My Mum and Dad, Joy and Jim Jarratt, were fit, healthy people and active all their l...

My partner, Rod*, of 20 years lost not only his life in a great deal of suffering bu...

I have just written the following email to five of our MPs:

"My younger broth...

My Dad, Franc Polak, passed away in July 2017 from gall bladder cancer.

He wa...

Professor Max Kamien, one of Australia’s most senior and influential general practit...

My husband Andy was my best friend. 

When my daughter Scarlett was 11-months-old, she woke up one morning and her body ha...

As a female semi-rural GP involved in palliative care for the past 25 years, I have ...

My father George always said he wanted to go home and die in his own country. He and...

I can't wait to stop talking and start walking – all the w...

My husband Russell was ill for 20 years – ten of those in chronic pain, riddled with...

My wife Dorothy Maxine Philip received a diagnosis of an inoperable cancer of the st...

My dad Dusty Miller was a Vietnam Veteran and founder of the now iconic Birdsville B...

When I was 17 years old I worked as a medical secretary at the Perth Radiological cl...

I’m 44. A Dad to two young children. A husband, a doctor and I’m dying.

Regrettably there has been both a sibling and some friends to whom I have had ...

My mother had been a strong opponent of assisted dying all her life until at t...

My husband, Michael Beilby, had COPD and Parkinsons. His doctors told him that...

My mother, Myrtle Tapscott, was the most generous person I have ever known.

I couldn't hold my mother in my arms as she died.

Fourteen months after he lost the power in his right arm, my husband, John Mac...

Our mother (June) was a proud woman who was down-to-earth and genuine yet steeped in...

Thirteen years ago Bill Spanbroek made an impassioned plea to West Australian and fe...

As a Catholic, I’ve always been taught that suicide and the ending of life “unnatura...

In 2006, my mother was diagnosed with acute leukemia. She had been suffering from my...

There have been several times over the years where I have ...

My parents Lindsay and Janet Henderson were GPs in the Scottish Highlands. In those ...

John Hammond may be one of Western Australia’s most high profile lawyers but he rate...

My family has experienced so much death over the years. I believe everybody has the ...

My mum’s name was Eileen O’Loughlan. She was a really lovely Irish woman, one of 15 ...

I’m in favour of people having the choice of assisted dying in cases like Motor Neur...

My Dad’s name was Ron Anderson. He was one of those people in this world who was rea...

Van (Willem van Soest) and his family migrated from the Netherlands to Australia in ...

My parents are from Argentina, but our family moved to the Netherlands when I was fo...

Ten years ago I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Since then I have consulted s...

My father Ernest John Hindle, who people knew as Pa...

Popular Perth newsreader Narelda Jacobs remembers close friend Robyn Hornsey pointin...

I saw my mother die of cancer when I was 18 years old. It was 1974, the year after I...

The last time Baldivis MP Reece Whitby saw his cousin Darren was at their grandmothe...

West Australian Mining and Pastoral Region MP Robin Chapple became a champion of ass...

My mother Valma Wolf was fit and healthy, played sport every day, worked hard,...

As a palliative care nurse, I am asked to end a patient’s life about twice a year – ...

My husband of 46 years, father of Drew and Kirsty, father-in-law of Kylie and Mark, ...