Dear Paul,

I still have moments when I re-live things.

I guess possibly with time things will get better.

My dad died of an unexpected massive coronary at
the age of 52. It was devastating for the family,
but for him it was all over in an instant.

Thank you, Foxy, you have a good heart :)

Love,

Joe

Dear Joe,

As do you dear friend.

Hi Foxy,

I lost my Father to cancer over 30 years ago, he was my best mate. I found it hard for a long time after. We were very close, and I was the one given the unenviable task of telling him his test results that gave him a few weeks to live. I was also the only one there in the hospital 3 weeks later when he took a severe convulsion, and the doctor had to administered a massive dose of diamorphine, I believe it was double the prescribed amount, which ended his life in an instant. My sister called it murder, I called it a favour.

Dear Paul,

I'm so sorry about your father.

People in grief say stupid things. I trust your
sister will come to understand how wrong she was.

Take care.

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Dear Fozy,

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I’m sorry about the link. For some unknown reason, it works for me here in Paris. Never mind, the best I can do is to suggest you click on the following link and go to Submission N° 133 (Mr Rod Crisp) and open the pdf file where, hopefully, you will find my article entitled “Justice – A matter of Life and Death” :

http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutional_Affairs/Dying_with_Dignity/Submissions
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Perhaps I should explain that the article was published in the Jul-Sept edition of the Australian Quarterly in 2014. I later discovered, quite accidentally, that somebody had submitted it to a federal parliamentary inquiry that year on proposed legalisation of euthanasia in Australia.

As I had no objection to that – quite the contrary – I just let it ride.

If, for some reason, you still can’t access the article, the only other suggestion I can make is to contact AQ Magazine on the following link. It appeared on the 85th anniversary of the magazine (2014), Vol 85 Issue 3 :

http://aips.net.au/aq-magazine/

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