Supporting those we love through end of life is not easy. There is no simple answer to how best to do it. What we can do, however, is to try and ensure they are not suffering unnecessarily, and as Andrew Denton explains, the single most important issue here is for them to have the comfort of choice.
I watched my father die painfully in hospital almost two decades ago, and that is the main reason I have established Go Gentle Australia (www.gogentleaustralia.org.au) – to work towards a change in the law so that Australians can have greater choice in how and when they die, just as people in so many overseas countries can already do.
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