Dr Hannah Gould
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616 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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This happens all the time in death care, that the kind of fundamental taboo and the fear around people talking about death do us a disservice over and over and over again.
Yes.
In everything from VAD to cemetery planning to looking after death care workers, OH&S, like in all of these different areas, our discomfort really holds us back.
Dead people are not great advocates.
No.
And so they don't make a lot of donations to political parties, they don't vote.
Yeah, it's really, really hard to make headway in changing this kind of area in Australia.
It's been really difficult.
It's always seen as a low priority.
Yeah.
You know, ironically, because death is never an emergency and it always is happening to someone else.
Like, until you get a politician or you get a political party where people have actually experienced it, I don't think that, to an extent, that is why VOD was legalised in Australia.
It's because people went through experiences of quote-unquote bad deaths and suffering deaths, and people like Andrew Denton and others really advocated for it.
Yes, it was legalised, but that took an extraordinary amount of time, decades of work.
And it's interesting you say, you know, death care workers...
You know, for them, it's very everyday.
I think it is every day for death care workers, but also part of the disservice we do is in not providing them with enough support.
Yes.
Um, you know, death funeral directors, morticians, cremation workers, it's a really hard job.
Um, and we should care a lot more about these people.
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