Voluntary assisted dying embraced by Uniting NSW.ACT aged care

For Neale Roberts, dying well is less about death than it is about life.

"A good death nearly always comes at the end of a good life," Uniting NSW.ACT's head of chaplaincy said.

"Living well is incredibly important, even if you only have two weeks left."

While medical staff address physical discomfort, chaplains in Uniting aged care homes are there for spiritual and emotional pain.

"It's about being able to sit with them and ask those fundamental questions of, what would a good death look like to you?"

Mr Roberts, who is also a Uniting Church minister and previously ran spiritual services at Canberra Hospital, is not challenged by euthanasia.

"If a person at the end of their life spends a lot of time thinking about their death and how it's going to happen and what they want, we can't