We revisit this important topic with Julian Gardner AM (formerly the Public Advocate for Victoria) who has been part of an implementation team and will talk about this along with Kass Hall – a terminal cancer patient and Go Gentle advocate who will be directly affected by the legislation.

For more info:

https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/hospitals-and-health-services/patient-care/end-of-life-care/voluntary-assisted-dying

If anything in this podcast has raised issues of grief, stress or personal crisis, both Lifeline and the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement provide telephone support and counselling 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

• Lifeline can be contacted on Tel: 13 11 14
• Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement Tel: 1800 642 066

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A New Year of Dying to Tell begins with the launch of a report on ‘The Future of Death and Ageing’ by the team from Portable.

Portable is a digital design and technology company proudly born in Melbourne, Australia. For over a decade, Portable has been at the forefront of design and technology, working with governments and for-purpose organisations to drive change.

Join Stephanie in a conversation with Peter Roper and Bonnie Graham from Portable as they explain how they engaged a young, diverse community in a topic as vast and complicated as death and what they discovered in putting together this extensive report.

To encourage conversation and make change possible in these important areas, Portable embraces the following values:

• First, we are “death and ageing positive”, encouraging us to embrace rather censor discussions about these topics.
• Second, everyone is an “end user”, and we will likely experience the death of others before our own, and each and everyone one of us has an interest in making it a good experience.
• Third, a good death is a human right, and we need to be able to articulate what this means for ourselves and communicate it outwards.
• And fourth, death and ageing are areas in need of social and policy engagement, and we are optimistic that using a human-centred approach we can make a difference.

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