Max Bell was a 65-year-old taxi driver in outback New South Wales who was dying from stomach cancer. When the NT government decided to legalise euthanasia, he saw a way out.
"Max said, 'alright, I'm gonna drive to Darwin'," Dr Nitschke says.
These versions of events never sat completely comfortably with Dr Nitschke, who believed they romanticised the dreadful reality of Mr Bell's condition by the time he'd reached his destination.
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