Category: <span>Stories</span>

John Gayson’s story

Bernard Erica has shared his personal story of suffering on “Australian Story” this week. He is not alone. There are many Australians who face the prospect of unbearable suffering as they progress towards the end of their life, without hope or choice. John Grayson is one of them. Watch this short video about …

Claire’s Story

I grew up in Canberra and although I no longer reside there, half my family still do. My story is long, tumultuous and complex but one thing has been the same and consistent for over 30 years-unmanaged, untreated, usually unbelieved and inoperable chronic pain and suffering. Recently I applied overseas…

RIGHT TO DIE – TERMINAL ILLNESS

My husband Bryce recently passed away in the RPA hospital from incurable liver related complications. The feeling is indescribable when you hear the words, “I’m so sorry, there’s nothing more we can do.” When Bryce was lucid he calmly stated if given a choice he would choose to end his…

My Own Choice

ABC’s Four Corners on 16 September 2013 was about a young man who has decided to end his life after 36 years of suffering a debilitating illness. But because euthanasia is illegal in Australia, he has to apply to another country to do it. Read the story and watch the…

Beverley’s choice

By her own account, Beverley Broadbent had lived a wonderful, fulfilling life. But she decided she’d had enough and it was time to go. Beverley Broadbent had observed many deaths before she planned her own. When she was just six years old, her mother died of heart failure at 36,…

Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die

Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die is a 2011 one-off television documentary produced by KEO North for BBC Scotland on the subject of assisted suicide, directed and produced by Charlie Russell. It is presented by Terry Pratchett and features Peter Smedley, a 71-year-old motor neurone disease sufferer, committing suicide at the Swiss assisted dying organisation, Dignitas sourced from Wikipedia.