When I think of Dad, it’s his awful death my mind fixes on. That’s why I’m so glad Andrew Denton has started a new conversation about death and dying in Australia

It is eight years almost to the minute, as I write, since my father died.

By middle age, most of us have had at least one parent die. We’re lucky if we haven’t lost both or, indeed, a sibling or too many friends.

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I wish I could have assured him then that I would not let him suffer. But I didn’t and I couldn’t

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