This is my stop South Metropolitan Health Service

Join Gina as she shares her love story with her courageous daughter Robbi through acceptance of Robbi’s terminal illness and journey to end of life through death meetings, humour, memory making, accessing VAD and final goodbyes. Gina talks us through how they approached this as a family,  to ensure Robbi’s control over the manner, timing and nature of her death and her capacity to see the beauty in Robbi’s gift to her, embracing both joy and sorrow of her story.

In this episode of ‘This is my stop’ podcast, Lisa shares her story of supporting her husband, Stephen, with his pancreatic cancer diagnosis just after his 53rd birthday, through to his treatment, hospitalisation and exploration of end of life choices.
Lisa talks through the challenges and the firsts they shared along the way, including when Stephen ultimately chose to access voluntary assisted dying and end his life on his own terms, with his ‘ace in his back pocket’

Hear Kerri and Brodie chat about the voluntary assisted dying journey their Nanna and Mum, Betty, chose to take.
Betty made a long-term commitment to this end of life option and worked through the process following her disease progression.
They share the day that she died surrounded by her family, dressed beautifully exactly as the lady she was, and their journey as a family in finding meaning in this space - including the serendipitous visits just after her death.

Dr Gareth Wahl shares his journey to caring for people and their support network in exploring Voluntary Assisted Dying, and the richness of this role as a VAD Practitioner. From his experiences, Gareth outlines the broad brushstrokes of what patients and families can expect when navigating Voluntary Assisted Dying in Western Australia, including answers to the questions they often ask their practitioners.

Recorded at the recent Fiona Wood Public Lecture Series event 'The lived experience of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD)', this podcasts provides an introduction to VAD in Western Australia (WA).
Through storytelling, hear from clinical nurse consultants from the Voluntary Assisted Dying Statewide Care Navigator Service, Meg Plaster and Alice Morison, on a discussion of lessons learned not just in WA, but internationally from a Churchill Fellow, as we seek to understand the experience and support the needs of those involved in VAD.
 
 

Dan takes us with him from his shock diagnosis of a brain tumour through his purposeful decision making around treatment and care planning with a goal to outlive his prognosis while maintaining quality of life. Expressing overwhelming feelings of empowerment and release through exploring VAD as an unexpected end of life choice, Dan shares that whilst his diagnosis is immovable, being informed and holding some control over how his death may be as his 'get out of jail card' has freed him to focus on the time in between as a living journey with his wife and family.