Photo of Phil Freeman (left), Claire Freeman (right). As people coped with lockdowns and uncertainty from the Covid19 pandemic, my family...

My father attempted suicide a few months ago ending up in hospital. My PhD supervisor inquired as to what my response to my father...

I watched the Netflix film ‘Crip Camp’ the other night. What I thought would be a pretty little film about some ‘cripple’s frolicking in...

I received a blog-comment! I don’t get many comments, so as you can see, when I do, I get a little excited. Hope you don’t mind me...

I’m not a half glass full girl, I’m also not a half glass empty… I’m a ‘what’s in the glass’ kinda girl, and that’s because I’m...

Towards the end of the year, I started experiencing pain in my hip related to a fall in the shower. After a few weeks in hospital and...

I was talking to some folks around a dinner table about some crunchy, hairy topics, mainly what our thoughts were regarding assisted...

I don’t have a mental health condition, yet I’ve been in hospital for actions I’ve inflicted upon myself. I have no idea what drives me...

It’s a question that was posed to me by Green MP Chloe Swarbrick while I was rattling around Parliament talking with various Ministers...

It’s been a crazy few months, putting my face in the spotlight to highlight concerns I have regarding assisted suicide in New Zealand....

It’s been a crazy few weeks (that sentence seems to becoming all too familiar with me!). I’ve been desperately trying to encourage people...

Jacinda, I’m so proud of the way you have handled the tragedy that affected my city of Christchurch. The day before the terrorist...

A few weeks ago, while I was with my father who is still in hospital after sustaining a catastrophic stroke, I got a phone call. I was...

For three years, I’ve been thinking a lot about the ‘quality of life’ debate. After I became more disabled from medical misadventure due...

Some parts of the world seem to be having a problem with increasing suicide rates. It seems to be occurring in mostly industrialised...

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) is an incredible scheme, started in New Zealand in 1972. All taxpayers pay a levy which...

I remember attending a dinner fundraiser for a charity in New Zealand that raises funds for ‘paralysis cure’. I had been their designer...

There is a piece missing from the pie that has been put together to rehabilitate someone with a serious injury. After an injury, we...

Flying back from Milan to New Zealand, I had a thought; I wanted to die. It was the first time I’d felt this way for years, but lack of...