Max Bell was a well known local and in 1996 was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer and knowing what the outcome was going to be as he had seen others go through with it wanted to to die peacefully and at that time the Northern Territory had just brought in the Rights of the Terminally ill act 1995 with a Dr.Phillip Nitschke 

He drove over 3,000 kilometers to Darwin and the roads were very rough and dusty only to have to return back to Broken Hill after he couldn’t get a specialist to confirm his diagnosis or a psychiatrist to confirm he wasn’t suffering from a treatable depression where he went through a slow agonising   death.

As Max says on the video, “I just don’t see why people want to inflict things like this on each other “

*R.I.P.~ Max Bell*