By Raquel Mustillo LABOR heavyweight and former Limestone Coast resident Kyam Maher has emotionally remembered watching the painful death of his mother and community stalwart Viv in a passionate debate about euthanasia laws. Mr Maher has introduced landmark legislation to legalise voluntary assisted dying in South Australia into the Legislative Council, which if passed would provide terminally ill patients a choice to access euthanasia. The opposition frontbencher tearfully spoke about Ms Maher, who passed away of pancreatic cancer in 2017, describing her death as “far from the peaceful, dignified end of life she or any other person deserves”. He told the chamber of her advocacy work for marginalised communities, including the Indigenous, which included running Mount Gambier’s women’s shelter, working as a social worker at Centrelink and her efforts at Pangula Mannamurna.