‘Her calling’: NSW father says daughter’s generosity was behind her death in Kambo frog toxin ritual

Natasha Lechner, who died at the age of 39 in a Kambo ceremony in Mullumbimby in 2018, was described by her father as a caring and generous soul Photograph: supplied by her father

Natasha Lechner’s father relived the final agonising moments of his only daughter’s life through many lenses as he sat in the gallery of a Lismore courtroom for the inquest into her 2019 death.

Over several days he heard three medical experts – a toxicologist, a cardiologist and a pathologist – discuss the nature of her death and the likelihood of its relationship to the secretions of an Amazonian frog, which had been applied to burns on her skin during a “Kambo” ceremony moments before she died.