Personal Stories

A woman who watched both her brother and father die horrendous, painful deaths has stepped forward to champion the cause for voluntary assisted dying. In 1984 Wendy White watched her brother – Bobby Goldsmith – succumb to a torturous AIDS-affected illness.
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We're at a turning point when it comes to death. While earlier generations may have faced their fates quietly, 'boomers' and 'digital natives' will have much different expectations, writes Tim Dunlop.
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The Greens MLC Cate Faerhmann has put together a collection of personal stories on dying, living and the right to choose that are part of the campaign in support of her Bill on the Rights of the Terminally Ill

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On Monday October 23 2006, Sean Davison, a forensics professor from the University of the Western Cape, described the condition of his 84-year-old mother: her body wracked with a progressive cancer, the diminutive white-haired psychiatrist with a quick mind and steel-blue eyes had refused to eat anything for the past 30 days and would drink only water. She had signed a living will requesting no antibiotics, no resuscitation and no attempts to make her eat.
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Little, if anything, stirs the cauldron of human emotion more than the issue of life and death. So it is no surprise that the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia continues to polarise the globe.
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Thank you Ronda for your amazing courage in sharing your tragic experience with us. It is yet another of many such terrible experiences that others have had or are enduring, due to the obduracy of so many of our elected representatives in denying the will of 85% of the people who never want to endure or have to share these unnecessarily horrendous dying experiences. We who support the legalisation of physician- assisted- dying will never stop fighting and campaigning for justice for the terminally or hopelessly ill to be given the legal right to exercise their democratic right to freedom of voice and choice.
Pamela B

A woman in the advanced stages of multiple sclerosis has become the face of a campaign in New South Wales for voluntary euthanasia laws. The New South Wales Greens are hoping the personal plea of Loredana Alessio-Mulhall will sway the state's politicians to vote for the laws.
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Loredana Alessio-Mulhall is not ready to die. But NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann wants to help her when she is. Ms Faehrmann will introduce a private member's bill to Parliament to legalise voluntary euthanasia.

Ms Alessio-Mulhall will lead a social media campaign to be launched on Monday including a video on YouTube in a bid to generate community support for the legislation. NSW MPs will be sent a letter and booklet containing personal stories about people who want the right to die.
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I am 73 years of age and by the time I was 40 I had lost many, many friends and family members to many horrible cancers and incurable conditions incl MND and Alzheimer’s. My involvement in their long dying process has forged my commitment as a campaigner for LVE.

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The state government is again giving Tasmanians an opportunity to have their say on assisted dying. The Premier Lara Giddings and Greens minister Nick McKIm have issued a consultation paper for people to have input on whether people suffering terminal illness can choose to die with dignity.

Submissions close on Friday 15 March 2013. Responses should be sent to GPO Box 123, Hobart, Tasmania 7001 or emailed to premier@dpac.tas.gov.au
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