How we die - Big Ideas

Published: Dec. 17, 2015, 9:35 p.m.

b'What is a good death? The past two decades have seen more than sixteen state or federal attempts \\u2013 and failures \\u2013 to create a law in Australia that allows voluntary assisted death. Polls show support for such laws. But our elected representatives hesitate to act. The debate has become immovable and seemingly too hard. Andrew Denton understands that it is a difficult moral question, but is passionate that we need to have a humane and civilised option for our own death made available in Australia.\\n\\nThis is the 2015 Di Gribble Argument at The Wheeler Centre.'