Pauline McGrath suspects her husband’s decision to die was hastened by his fear of ending up in a Catholic palliative care facility that might have denied him access to voluntary assisted dying.
On 27 May last year, McGrath knew something was amiss when her husband, David Levitt, a paediatrician, arrived back to their Brisbane home before her for the first time in 30 years of marriage. She asked him: “Who’s died?”