By Alex Mann
For two years the family of euthanasia advocate Max Bromson has lived in fear of criminal prosecution.
Max died in July 2014 at age 66, but not of the bone cancer that made his last years so painful.
Instead, with a camera rolling, he died surrounded by his family after taking a fatal dose of euthanasia drug Nembutal.
His death sparked a police and coronial investigation into what role his family may have played in his death. Their cameras, computers and the controversial footage of his final moments were seized as evidence.
“The reason we filmed it was probably for legal reasons, to show that we had nothing to do with assisting him, that it was his choice,” Kerry Bromson, Max’s sister, told 7.30.
“I think we were naive, I think we all went in quite blind.
“We were doing it out of love for our brother, or father, it wasn’t a conscious thing about what would happen out of this.”
Now the family has been cleared of any wrongdoing and the footage can be seen publicly for the first time.
