‘Your Death Your Choice’

Community Education Initiative

Dying is everyone’s business, and although every person dies, the majority of Queenslanders have a poor understanding of palliative care or the process of dying. Most still believe that death is nearly always a painful and undignified process and that specialist palliative care is unlikely to result in a dignified and pain free death.

The Your Death Your Choice Community Education Initiative seeks to challenge that belief by providing a public forum for the discussion of key end of life issues, including physician assisted suicide, as well as educating Queenslanders about the science of dying, medico-legal and ethical issues, and decision making at end of life.

The Your Death Your Choice Community Education Initiative is a collaborative project of Palliative Care Queensland and Cancer Voices Queensland.

DATE CLAIMER: The next event will be the Your Death Your Choice Community Forum
Date: Saturday May 19, 2012
Venue: Events Centre @ Maroochy, Maroochy RSL Club, Memorial Avenue, Maroochydore
Sponsors: Ferguson Cannon Lawyers and K.M.Smith Funeral Directors
Tickets: Standard $45, Concession $27

View the 2012 Flyer as a pdf You are welcome to download it, print it out and pass it on, or to attach it to an email and forward it to your family, friends and colleagues.

For more information and to register for the event please visit www.yourdeathyourchoice.com.au

PAST EVENTS: The 2011 initiative included two key events, both of which took place during the week of World Hospice Day 2011.

Both events provided a welcome opportunity for the Queensland community to discuss and debate the major issues associated with dying in Queensland. To download the event programmes, click  here.

Event One
Community Stories of Death and Dying
Featuring Playback Theatre Company
7.30pm – 9.00pm Friday September 30th
Merthyr Uniting Church Hall, New Farm, Qld

Event Two
Your Death Your Choice Community Forum
MC – Peter Thompson (ABC Talking Heads)
8.30am – 3.30pm Saturday October 8th
Victoria Park Golf Complex, Herston, Qld

For more information about these events email enquiries@palliativecareqld.org.au
or contact the Palliative Care Queensland offices on 07 3211 2299.