Good Death Through Time

A Senate committee investigation of Australia’s Northern Territory Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995, the first legislation in the world which allowed doctors to actively assist patients to die, found that for the vast majority of Indigenous Territorians, the idea that a physician—or anyone else—should help end a dying, suffering person’s life was so foreign that in some instances it proved almost impossible to translate. This book explores how such a death became a thinkable—even desir...