Gide, humans. Of all the conversations we have, which is more difficult than the conversation around death?

Not just other people's death, that's hard enough. What about your own death?

Have you talked to people about it? About how you'd like to die?

I mean, even the very idea of having some say in how you die is both a luxury and perhaps a little bit of a perversion of the way of nature.

I mean, if you're a religious person, you probably don't think these are things that people should be dabbling in at all.

And yet increasingly, as we're able to, as we're living longer and longer, as we're coming up with

medical solutions that improve our longevity, but not necessarily our mental capacity.

If you found yourself in a situation where life was no longer worth living, either because

you were riddled with dementia or some degenerative disease, would you want to have some control over that?

Would it even be legal to have some control over that?

These are subjects we shy away from, because it always seems weird to bring them up.

But in reality, that only makes them more pressing.

Choosing how to live a flourishing life and how to end it on your terms is a conversation

that may seem far off, but it's's most famous and most respected creative minds.

He's had an incredible career in television and radio.

He's been a top-rating FM Breakfast Radio presenter.

He's a producer, a writer, former TV host.

He created well-known television shows like Gruen and Hungry Beast.

He hosted his own long-running interview show on the ABC called Enough Rope.

And funnily enough, he now spends much of his time as an advocate for voluntary-assisted dying laws or euthanasia.

He has a podcast about that, which is called Better Off Dead.

He has an organisation devoted to it called Go Gentle. And that's the pretext for this

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