Dr Hannah Gould
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first heard Jul 2026
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over their end, over their dying process, in the same way that they want to have self-determination over their birthing process.
Right, so for me, kind of this move, this adoption of EAD, particularly by, you know, the baby boomers, by older generations,
indicates that people are more willing to think about almost choreographing their end.
Like, how would I like to die?
Where would that like to be?
What circumstances?
And one of the reasons we know that control is so important is because we have statistics from VAD in Victoria, and we know that, quite interestingly, the majority of people who access those drugs
don't end up taking them.
Really?
Most people get the drugs, they have them, and they have them on the nightstand, or they have access to them, and they don't take them.
They die of natural causes.
But the having of the drugs is really important.
Because it gives control.
And if you're dying of a disease that you cannot control,
Having the option is always kind of almost a therapeutic in itself.
So I've heard some PIST scholars even discuss VAD not so much as a means for people to access euthanasia, but as a treatment for lack of control.
Like, if you feel like everything's been stripped away from you, you've been forced into this corner, all of a sudden you're confronting whatever it is, cancer or lung, you know.
having access to those drugs potentially is a way that you are able to have some of that control.
It's really difficult.
So I suppose one of them is that for me at least, you know, there's some concern that VAD –
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