Although I’ve lived here for 37.5 years, I’m clearly still a Victorian as I’ve never heard of the guy.
I moved over 31 years ago.
Newbie 
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From his diagnosis with oesophageal cancer in 2024 to openly wrestling with end-of-life decisions, beloved ABC broadcaster James Valentine took his listeners along with him as he stared down his own death.
Now, after his passing, that openness continues – with Valentine’s decision to share the fact that he ended his life through voluntary assisted dying, or VAD.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/2026/04/29/andrew-denton-james-valentine-7am
VAD seems to be such a hard topic for many people. Thank goodness it is there for those who wish to use it.
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I’m really glad it is a thing.
It helps a lot of people.
I’m also glad that, on this at least, religious idiots seem to have decided that they don’t care anymore.
Alex Zanardi.
I had a photo with him at the Melbourne F1 GP years ago (before the accident).
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There’s a bloke who just refused to lay down and accept his fate.
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Geoff Ablett, (Gary snr brother), and Hawthorn player.
MND, 71.
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Was so scared when I saw the heading that omitted the word “Hawthorn”.
MND ucks all the same.
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MND (and cancer) can FRO!!
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Ted Turner
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RIP Jack Douglas.
Famed producer of records by Cheap Trick, John Lennon, Patti Smith, Aerosmith and many others.
The man had good ears…
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Also, if reports are to be believed…
RIP Sammy the Seal… tourist attraction and occasional disruptor of traffic down on the Mornington Peninsula. 
Appears so.
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May he Rest in Pisces
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He would have probably been one of the last people to see John Lennon alive.
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Yep… from memory, he was the one acting as Yoko Ono’s spokesperson in the immediate aftermath…
IIRC they were mixing one of Yoko’s tracks right before it happened. Don’t know if he was in the studio with them, though.
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