Ray Martin has achieved much in his long and storied career as one of Australia's best-known journalists, but for all the powerful interviews he has conducted and complex stories he has covered, perhaps none has been as confronting as his latest investigation: his own mortality.
“It's one of the last taboos,” says Martin about the subject of his new documentary series Ray Martin: The Last Goodbye. Death: and what to do when it happens to you. “Despite my age and that of my wife – she's a few years younger – we didn't talk about it. And if we didn't talk about it, then other people didn't talk about it.”