First person dies under Victorian assisted dying laws

A Victorian woman has become the first person to access the state’s assisted dying legislation.

Victoria's was the first state parliament to pass assisted dying legislation. Source: AAP

Kerry Robertson was surrounded by her family as she took her final breath.

The mother of three from the regional town of Bendigo died in a nursing home.

Ms Robertson is the first person in Victoria to use the state’s historic Voluntary Assisted Dying Act.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, but over the years it spread to her lungs, liver, bones and brain.

Kerry Robertson’s children described her death last month as peaceful, after her almost decade-long battle with breast cancer.