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ABC News
National
state political reporter Kate McKenna

Voluntary assisted dying laws come into effect today in Queensland, so how does it work?

Susan Reilly's mother died two decades ago, but the toll of the "degrading" experience still lingers today.

She witnessed her mother Lesley slowly succumb to breast cancer, powerless to control the manner and timing of her death.

"I know she felt degraded and almost inhuman in a way," Ms Reilly recalls.

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