‘Just changing the date on the death certificate’: GP who performs VAD across 20,000 sq km

Dr Marc Heyning is one of a handful of doctors doing voluntary assisted dying in his semi-rural area of northern NSW.
Dr Marc Heyning.

Dr Marc Heyning remembers one voluntary assisted dying patient who was estranged from his entire family.

The patient had end-stage emphysema and initially wanted to take the voluntary assisted dying (VAD) drugs alone at home.