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Better Off Dead

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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#2 How dare you want to end your life: Liz's story

#2 How dare you want to end your life: Liz's story

Liz is a dynamic 48 year-old businesswoman who’s dying of cancer. She wants to have a choice about how she dies because ... Read more

15 Feb 2016

32mins

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#3 The 80-year-old outlaw

#3 The 80-year-old outlaw

According to Canadian anti-euthanasia campaigner Alex Schadenberg, Melbourne doctor Rodney Syme is a threat to society: ... Read more

15 Feb 2016

32mins

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#4 It can never be perfect, so why try and improve it?

#4 It can never be perfect, so why try and improve it?

Opponents of assisted dying in Australia want to leave things as they are, because of the worrying things they claim mig... Read more

16 Feb 2016

32mins

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#6 Once you start killing, you can't stop: the Netherlands, part 2

#6 Once you start killing, you can't stop: the Netherlands, part 2

For those who hold out the Netherlands as a textbook case of a ‘slippery slope’, they see a law originally designed to h... Read more

23 Feb 2016

45mins

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#10 Neither hasten nor prolong death: palliative care in Australia, part 1

#10 Neither hasten nor prolong death: palliative care in Australia, part 1

Speaking with doctors in Belgium, the Netherlands and Oregon, I’d learnt that in those places, palliative care and assis... Read more

15 Mar 2016

48mins

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#5 The keys to life and death in someone else's hands: the Netherlands, part 1

#5 The keys to life and death in someone else's hands: the Netherlands, part 1

The Netherlands’ euthanasia laws are the longest-running in Europe. Surprisingly, the drive to create them didn’t come f... Read more

22 Feb 2016

31mins

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#8 Darkness visible: Marjorie, Edith and Laura: Belgium, part 2

#8 Darkness visible: Marjorie, Edith and Laura: Belgium, part 2

Shortly after arriving in Belgium, I learned of ‘Laura’ – a 24-year-old woman who had sought the right to be euthanised ... Read more

2 Mar 2016

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#9 Why should one church decide for all of us? Death with dignity in Oregon

#9 Why should one church decide for all of us? Death with dignity in Oregon

The success of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act – at 18 years, the world’s longest-running law of this kind – puts two th... Read more

7 Mar 2016

49mins

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#12 Velvet Ray

#12 Velvet Ray

Ray Godbold is a palliative care nurse faced with terminal cancer – but he doesn’t want to die in palliative care. Robyn... Read more

21 Mar 2016

52mins

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#7 The killing fields of Belgium: Belgium, part 1

#7 The killing fields of Belgium: Belgium, part 1

If there is an epicentre for anti-euthanasia sentiment, it’s Belgium – home to what are often described as the most libe... Read more

29 Feb 2016

48mins

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