Lorna, Richard, and Muriel are healthy, active Australians in their eighties and nineties who swim, dance, play golf, and stay close to their grandchildren, yet all three intend to end their own lives before illness or dependence takes hold. Reporter Janine Cohen's report for ABC's Four Corners follows this activist minority, said to number in the hundreds, who argue that choosing death is a final act of self-determination. Richard, 90, a World War II veteran, has already written his own death notice, ending it "by his own hand." June and Ruth explain their refusal to end up in a nursing home or lose their faculties. The film also sits with a father and his adult son, a committed Christian who is desperate to change his mind, capturing the anguish inside families who disagree. Doctors and ethicists interviewed worry the trend reflects a culture that treats old age and dependence as a loss of dignity rather than a natural stage of life.