Horrific to see the humanities and social sciences panels being disbanded. A dark day for many and a remarkably short sighted decision. Impact should not be measured just from core science beehive.govt.nz/release/marsde…

It's finally out in print 🥹 currently on offer on the Routledge website. Perfect Christmas present for the thanatologist in your life 🎁🎄

1/ Canada's 5th #MAID report came out last week. More information (82 pages!), less fanfare, likely due to people being better at interpreting observational data. Here's a 🧵 with some key findings canada.ca/en/health-cana…

Check out our latest in the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand on the diseases that give rise to #voluntaryassisteddying #VAD. James Downar and I explain the findings of recent Heidinger et al JAMA Internal Medicine study theconversation.com/we-studied-20-… QUT Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) QUT Law

Montana Senate Determines End-of-Life Care Better with "Well Placed Bullets": Medical aid in dying has been authorized in Montana since 2009. But on Friday, the Montana Senate passed S.B. 136 which would recriminalize MAID. The bill now heads to the… dlvr.it/THsWHG

New paper in Palliative Care and Social Practice identifies the key challenges Belgian health professionals experience when providing #assisteddying journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Ben White Lindy Willmott Kenneth Chambaere Luc Deliens Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR)

I was about to have a milestone number of citations but then a chunk disappeared from google scholar. Has anyone else noticed this? #AcademicChatter

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Pleased to contribute to the NZ chapter with Jeanne Snelling and to the chapter on choice with Els Van Wijngaarden

Tertiary training deserves resourcing and investment not gutting and dismantling, please sign the below petition together.org.nz/save_our_polyt…

Calling #deathstudies PGRs & Postdocs! Catch up with fellow researchers in a friendly online discussion & support group. 👉 Postdoc group, Wed 21 May, 9:00 BST 👉 PGR group, Fri 23 May, 9:00 BST Book here. deathandsociety.org/eventsandgroup…

Returning for a short minute to say my Health Research Council team are hosting an assisted dying conference wgtn.ac.nz/assisted-dying… It's focusing on Aotearoa NZ but if your work has relevance, I encourage you to submit an abstract (I need to update the website to reflect this!)

2026 Conference — Imagining the Ideal Assisted Dying Service: Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand is presenting a conference 12–13 February 2026, to imagine the ideal assisted dying service, focusing on access, safety, and equity. Keynote… dlvr.it/TKwGCY

& thank you to The Leverhulme Trust for making this childhood dream of a research project happen!

New article on participating in assisted dying: showing intended participation before it was available did not always lead to actual participation 1 year later. Find out the reasons why: ⁦Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR)⁩ ⁦Ben White⁩ ⁦⁦Lindy Willmott⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The call to submit abstracts for the 5th International Conference on Assisted Dying and Other End-of-Life Care is now open! Submit your abstract and register here: consol.eventsair.com/icel5 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR)

Undisciplinary turns FIVE today! Thank you to all the guests and listeners over the past five years. It has been a joy and pleasure; marked by sadness and gratitude for Courtney.