Tweet Facebook Mail Di Hall describes her husband Marshall's death as "beautiful". As the pain from the terminal cancer he was diagnosed with became increasingly unbearable, he decided to use Australia's voluntary assisted dying laws to end his life. The 61-year-old died on September 1, 2023, at home on the Gold Coast.
READ MORE: Woman charged with murder after girl, 10, found dead Di Hall describes her husband Marshall's death as "beautiful". (Supplied) "I was lucky to be able to lie beside him, to be there with him," Hall, 63, said. "It was actually beautiful.
" The fit surfer, who had been working as a real estate agent before his illness, is typical of the 2,467 Aussies who have now used laws which have legalised assisted dying, according to a new report. He was diagnosed with cancer after suffering constipation and a pain near his tailbone. Doctors found a mass near the the father-of-four's coccyx, known as a presacral tumour.
READ MORE: Cathy said her brother's death was 'appalling'. Now other NSW patients like him can ask to die As the cancer progressed, because of where the tumour was, sitting down became impossible. "The worst part about it all was is pain was never under control," Hall, a nurse said.
"He couldn't even sit and have a coffee, all he could do was lay in bed. READ MORE: Aussie city bans the hire of e-scooters "After we basically knew that there wasn't going to be any chance, his biggest fear would be having a stroke, and he'd end up hav.