E ve Crotty describes her mum Marion’s death as peaceful and painless. They were on the couch in their family home, Crotty on one side, her dad on the other, singing Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon. It was a running joke in the family – when Crotty was little, she thought the lyrics were “socks on fire”.

“No teenager should ever have to lose a parent. It was an extremely sad moment that will live with me forever, but her death was tranquil,” Crotty, now 21, says.

“It is a death that I never thought my mother would have.”

Marion died just shy of her 53rd birthday in August 2023 after accessing Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying scheme.

Crotty says her mother was a “bit of a control freak” and saw VAD as a way to reclaim bodily autonomy and dignity after years of end-stage renal failure a

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