Category: Living well

Most of us will not die suddenly. As Stephen Duckett and I pointed out in the Grattan Institute's Dying Well report, most people die after a period of decline that is now often long and predictable. Often conversations about death are avoided, but understanding and discussing the process of dying are amongst the most practical things we can do for ourselves and the people we love. Today most of us will live well into our 70s and 80s, a huge change from the beginning of the last century 126 years ago when...