#17 Why Do I Have to Go Through Hell to Get to Heaven?
20 years ago, four dying people were able to access the Northern Territory’s world-first law to help them die more mercifully, before the law itself w...
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Andrew Denton investigates the stories, moral arguments and individuals woven into discussions about why good people are dying bad deaths in Australia - because there is no law to help them.
#16 Abandon Hope
Paul Russell — Photo: Supplied My search for the truth about assisted dying began when I was invited to attend the HOPE International Symposium in Ad...
#15 Lawrie's Story
Of all the arguments against assisted dying, the most heartless I’ve heard is this: Suicide is legal. Why do you need assistance to do something that ...
#14 Australia's Dark Little Secret
The repeated call by opponents of assisted dying is that the elderly and the vulnerable must be protected from coercion. In this, they are right – and...
#13 Now They're Killing Babies
Assisted dying has no more committed opponent than the Catholic Church. They have thrown resources, and the full weight of their political influence, ...
#12 Velvet Ray
Ray Godbold is a palliative care nurse faced with terminal cancer – but he doesn’t want to die in palliative care. Robyn and Ray Godbold — Photo: Andr...
#11 Whose life is it anyway?: palliative care in Australia, part 2
Associate Professor Richard Chye is the director of the Sacred Heart palliative care unit at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. A gifted physician and t...
#10 Neither hasten nor prolong death: palliative care in Australia, part 1
Speaking with doctors in Belgium, the Netherlands and Oregon, I’d learnt that in those places, palliative care and assisted dying are seen as things t...
#9 Why should one church decide for all of us? Death with dignity in Oregon
The success of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act – at 18 years, the world’s longest-running law of this kind – puts two things into sharp relief. Firstl...
#8 Darkness visible: Marjorie, Edith and Laura: Belgium, part 2
Shortly after arriving in Belgium, I learned of ‘Laura’ – a 24-year-old woman who had sought the right to be euthanised after years of unrelieved ment...