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SUMMARY:PUBLIC MEETING – Speaker: Andrew Denton
LOCATION:Brentwood Hotel\, 16 Kemp St\, Kilbirnie\, Wellington
DESCRIPTION:http://www.ves.org.nz/event-2220847\n\nFree entry.\n  Andrew Denton is an Australian television producer\, comedian\, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter\, radio host and host of the ABC's weekly television interview program “Enough Rope”.\n  He has become Australia’s most prominent campaigner for voluntary assisted dying.\n  He watched his novelist father Kit suffer a painful and protracted death in hospital\n  from heart disease. “It was horrible to watch and horrible to hear\,” he said. Watching him die remains the most profoundly shocking experience of my life - to see the brutality of it.”\n  He spent much of 2015 talking with patients\, doctors\, palliative care nurses\, politicians\, lawyers\, priests\, the bereaved and anti-euthanasia campaigners in Australia\, the Netherlands\, Belgium and the pioneering US state of Oregon. Denton put his interviews into a moving 17- part podcast called Better Off Dead. Released in February 2016\, it made an immediate impact\, shooting to No.2 position on Australia’s iTune Podcast Chart. A must hear!\n  \n\n  \n\n
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