Response from the Commissioner to the DWD ACT Inc. Submission
The response from the ACT Human Rights Commission on the submission made by Dying With Dignity ACT on our human rights and an elective death.
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DWD ACT Inc. Submission to the human Rights Commission on the Right to Life and the Right to practice one’s beliefs
Dying With Dignity has made a submission to the ACT Human Rights commission regarding our human rights and an elective death.
Be My Voice
Advance Care Planning is a way to help you think about, plan, talk about and share your thoughts and wishes about your future health care.
Death Fetish
In all modern societies across the world death takes on the form of a fetish. A so-called ‘natural’ death or, in other words, death by disease is the process we force on people because it has the status of being the ‘right thing’ to do. It conforms to the will of authorities both government and church and it conforms with the will of families.
Panel – Death Gone Wrong
While birth and marriage are discussed and dissected to the point of fetishisation, the final, inevitable life event gets much less airtime. We just try to avoid it for as long as possible. As our societies take us further and further away from the physical reality of death, a lucky…
The Conversation Project
How to go about holding difficult conversations about death and dying with family and friends Read how to do it here …