Lynn Ruane (Independent)
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I wanted to understand how that could operate. I just wanted to understand that sentence from Dr. Nitschke’s opening statement and now I do.

I have a question for Dr. Mewett. There was an interesting sentence in his opening statement and I wish to tease it out.

Only a very small minority were what some people have labelled (pejoratively) as "control freaks". However, they were, without exception in my experience, very determined people who had firm, well-considered views about how they wanted to manage [to] end ... their lives with a terminal illness.

What is behind that sentence? Obviously, somebody was using pejorative terms. Is this about people who had OCD or any sort of neurodivergence who others said were control freaks who wanted to control every single thing about how they lived or died? Is there something behind that that I am not understanding?