Howard Sattler: "I want to bow o...
Radio personality Howard Sattler says he hopes to be one of the first to make use of...
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My Nana, Elvie Holly, taught me so many things – she was the beating heart of our sp...
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My family has been decimated: Three generations, and more than a dozen people who ca...
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My name is Rhonda Taylor. I celebrated my 54th birthday a week ago, my last. I have ...
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Every week as a vet I put suffering pets – with no quality of life – to a gentle and...
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“I’m sorry to report that it seems you are displaying symptoms of the disease called...
Read the full storyMy mother, Gail
My mother Gail Carbone had a terminal brain tumour and passed away on 13 January, 20...
Read the full storyDrs Ian Catto and Mary Collins
"Even if one dying person suffers unnecessarily, it is one too many."
Read the full storyElizabeth Cheung
We need your help so that other families don't have to suffer the way Elizabeth's di...
Read the full storyI have ten auto-immune diseases
I love life. I am not depressed. But I am stashing away pills so that I can end my l...
Read the full storyMy husband, Alan
Alan Bacon and I were pen friends for six months before we even met, and when we did...
Read the full storyI know my dad felt great pain
My dad, Ned Edward, used to tell me stories about his childhood when he dropped me o...
Read the full storyMy mum, Mary, and my aunt, Jeanenne
My mum and my aunt were raised on a dairy farm in Busselton, so they grew to care ab...
Read the full storyMy father, John
I am 68, which is about the same age my dad was when he died. So these days I find m...
Read the full storyThe Cat Lady of Kojonup
My mum’s name was Elizabeth Stancer but she was also known as the Cat Lady of Kojonu...
Read the full storyKeith Potger
Australian music legend Keith Potger has lent his support to calls for voluntary ass...
Read the full storyThe hospice could not cope
My beautiful husband Michael was diagnosed with motor neurone disease on the 1st of ...
Read the full storyMy husband, John
John Austin Sayer was a charming man and had the gift of knowing how to talk easily ...
Read the full storyTom Percy, QC
Prominent Queens Counsel, Tom Percy, has supported calls for assisted dying laws.
Read the full storyChristine Dargie
10% of suicides in WA are by people with a terminal illness. The effect on families ...
Read the full storyDr Mary Collins and Prof Fiona S...
What if you could have a beautiful death? Free from suffering, in control and with y...
Read the full storyDr Ian Catto
I graduated from medical school 40 years ago. Increasingly I have seen divisiveness ...
Read the full storyPeta Nottle, one of Australia's ...
As one of Western Australia’s longest serving registered nurses and one of Australia...
Read the full storyMy husband, Paul
I was driving when I heard Andrew Denton use the phrase 'Light a Fire' and knew that...
Read the full storyCamilla's father
In 2009 my father was diagnosed with bowel cancer. By the time it was discovered, it...
Read the full storySarah's husband, JD
My late husband JD loved Christmas more than anyone I’ve ever known. He did everythi...
Read the full storyMy sister, Peggie
My late father used to say that suffering from advanced emphysema was like gasping f...
Read the full storyHoward Sattler: my story
Radio legend Howard Sattler stood up for the battlers and took on governments in his...
Read the full storyMy aunt Roslyn, mother Eulalie, ...
My aunt Roslyn Hamilton-Brown, my mother Eulalie Maria Celine Humphrey, and my fathe...
Read the full storyGina, the love of my life
Georgina Burns, or Gina as she was known to friends, met her future husband and the ...
Read the full storyMy father, Ernest
My father Ernest Alun Jones was a World War II veteran, a very stoic character. I n...
Read the full storyDr Felicity Haynes' mother Joan
My mother, Joan Freeth, died of breast cancer in a slow and painful death, propped u...
Read the full storyDon Paterson: my story
l'm a firm believer in life choices. That we all should have a choice if we want to ...
Read the full storyMy father, Leslie
My father Leslie Hounsome died in 2006 at the age of 86. H...
Read the full storyVanessa's mother, Jen
When I was 19-years-old, I became the primary carer for my mum, who was in the advan...
Read the full storyGarry and Jan's story
An overwhelming majority of Australians, Allanah MacTiernan said, wanted the right t...
Read the full storyJim and Joy, my parents
My Mum and Dad, Joy and Jim Jarratt, were fit, healthy people and active all their l...
Read the full storyMarie's husband, Rod
My partner, Rod*, of 20 years lost not only his life in a great deal of suffering bu...
Read the full storyMaretta Bane's brother
I have just written the following email to five of our MPs:
Read the full storyMy dad, Franc
My Dad, Franc Polak, passed away in July 2017 from gall bladder cancer.
He wa...
Read the full storyProfessor Max Kamien
Professor Max Kamien, one of Australia’s most senior and influential general practit...
Read the full storyMy husband Andy was my best friend
My husband Andy was my best friend.
Read the full storyGerald Charles Briggs
When my daughter Scarlett was 11-months-old, she woke up one morning and her body ha...
Read the full storyDr Alida Lancee
As a female semi-rural GP involved in palliative care for the past 25 years, I have ...
Read the full storyGeorge, Dinny Laurence's father
My father George always said he wanted to go home and die in his own country. He and...
Read the full storyBelinda and her mother, Mareia
I can't wait to stop talking and start walking – all the w...
Read the full storyA Brave Life, A Merciless End
My husband Russell was ill for 20 years – ten of those in chronic pain, riddled with...
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My wife Dorothy Maxine Philip received a diagnosis of an inoperable cancer of the st...
Read the full storyAngie's dad Dusty
My dad Dusty Miller was a Vietnam Veteran and founder of the now iconic Birdsville B...
Read the full storyChristine's mother, Hazel
When I was 17 years old I worked as a medical secretary at the Perth Radiological cl...
Read the full storyColin's story
I’m 44. A Dad to two young children. A husband, a doctor and I’m dying.
Read the full storyJan Markby's Uncle Tom
Regrettably there has been both a sibling and some friends to whom I have had ... Read the full story
Gillian White's mother
My mother had been a strong opponent of assisted dying all her life until at t... Read the full story
Margo Beilby's husband, Michael
My husband, Michael Beilby, had COPD and Parkinsons. His doctors told him that... Read the full story
Kerry Enright's mother, Mrytle
My mother, Myrtle Tapscott, was the most generous person I have ever known.
Read the full storyAnne Fraser's mother
I couldn't hold my mother in my arms as she died.
Read the full storyJenny's husband, John
Fourteen months after he lost the power in his right arm, my husband, John Mac... Read the full story
June, Deborah Allcott's mother
Our mother June was a proud woman who was down-to-earth and genuine yet steeped in t...
Read the full storyMichael Watkins, Bill Spanbroek'...
Thirteen years ago Bill Spanbroek made an impassioned plea to West Australian and fe...
Read the full storyDom Rose's grandmother
As a Catholic, I’ve always been taught that suicide and the ending of life “unnatura...
Read the full storyGrytsje Doust's mother, Klaske
In 2006, my mother was diagnosed with acute leukemia. She had been suffering from my...
Read the full storyJoanna Church
There have been several times over the years where I have ...
Read the full storyLindsay and Janet, Gillian's par...
My parents Lindsay and Janet Henderson were GPs in the Scottish Highlands. In those ...
Read the full storyJohn Hammond, a lawyer, represen...
John Hammond may be one of Western Australia’s most high profile lawyers but he rate...
Read the full storyMichael, Kate McBarron's brother
My family has experienced so much death over the years. I believe everybody has the ...
Read the full storyEileen, Kelly's mother
My mum’s name was Eileen O’Loughlan. She was a really lovely Irish woman, one of 15 ...
Read the full storyMy husband, Darren
I’m in favour of people having the choice of assisted dying in cases like Motor Neur...
Read the full storyLeonie's father, Ron
My Dad’s name was Ron Anderson. He was one of those people in this world who was rea...
Read the full storyWillem van Soest, Marcelle's hus...
Van (Willem van Soest) and his family migrated from the Netherlands to Australia in ...
Read the full storyMica Pereira's family
My parents are from Argentina, but our family moved to the Netherlands when I was fo...
Read the full storyMichael Walker's story
Ten years ago I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Since then I have consulted s...
Read the full storyRobyn, Narelda 's friend
Popular Perth newsreader Narelda Jacobs remembers close friend Robyn Hornsey pointin...
Read the full storyMy dad, Pat
My father Ernest John Hindle, who people knew as Pa... Read the full story
My mother, Tan
I saw my mother die of cancer when I was 18 years old. It was 1974, the year after I...
Read the full storyReece's cousin, Darren
The last time Baldivis MP Reece Whitby saw his cousin Darren was at their grandmothe...
Read the full storyMy mum, Dorothy
West Australian Mining and Pastoral Region MP Robin Chapple became a champion of ass...
Read the full storyMy mother, Valma
My mother Valma Wolf was fit and healthy, played sport every day, worked hard,... Read the full story
TE's palliative nursing experience
As a palliative care nurse, I am asked to end a patient’s life about twice a year – ...
Read the full storyAndrew Rose, my husband
My husband of 46 years, father of Drew and Kirsty, father-in-law of Kylie and Mark, ...
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