Bonus Episode 14: Last Words: Voluntary Assisted Dying
Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying law came into effect in June 2019. The first of its kind in Australia and touted as the most conservativ...
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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.
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#13 Unintended Consequences
When Victoria’s VAD law was passed in 2017, it was touted by Premier Daniel Andrews as ‘the most conservative in the world’. This was true....
#12 A Cry For Help
Whether it is through the words of the pope, his representatives the bishops and archbishops, or its surrogates in the medical profession, t...
#11 The End of Life Lottery
The assisted dying debate in Australia has revealed two parallel universes. The conservative Christian universe, which believes our lives be...
#10 We Who Walk Towards Death
At the heart of the political debate around voluntary assisted dying lies palliative care. On one side sits the argument that it can effecti...
#9 The Light Under the Bushel
In September 2020, as Tasmania’s Upper House prepared to debate an Assisted Dying bill, an article appeared on the online publication Mercat...
#8 The Good Samaritan
The key word in Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying law is the first one: ‘voluntary’. By law, any doctor, nurse, or other health profession...
#7 The ‘C’ Word
There are many firsts in Betty King’s life. First female prosecutor for the state of Victoria. First female prosecutor for the Commonwealth...
#6 The Locked Box
Imagine turning up to work one day to discover flyers outside your office accusing you of being a ‘death peddler’ and an ‘Uber service for p...
#5 I Choose Not to Suffer
So much was said during Victoria’s parliamentary debate about the people who would choose voluntary assisted dying, were it to be made legal...
#4 Do No Harm
No group has done more to persuade politicians to oppose assisted dying in Australia over the last 20 years than doctors. Citing their Hippo...
#3 Lucky Phil
“Thou shalt not kill” - The Sixth Commandment Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying law was written to allow an eligible, terminally ill patie...
#2 The Fire or The Fall
Warning: This episode of Better Off Dead contains references to suicide and self-harm. These include discussions about how some terminally i...
#1 The Belly of the Beast
Spurred by watching his own father die painfully, in 2015 Andrew Denton set out to investigate – why are good people being forced to die bad...
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Andrew Denton investigates the stories behind Victoria’s landmark Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) law: Who seeks to use it, and why? Who are...
#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 la...
#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 Sympos...
#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 somet...
#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 r...
#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 i...
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