The lack of legal access to assisted dying puts terminally ill people in danger of a painful, unsafe, lonely death.
Travelling abroad for an assisted death is a drastic, expensive measure that would not be needed if assisted dying were legal in the British Isles.
The lack of legal access to assisted dying means that people are forced to endure extreme suffering, and are denied the option of a good death.
I am not afraid to die. I want to live, I want my life to continue, but right now I am living with extreme anxiety about suffering.
“Some of the methods my dad looked into were brutal.” Joanne’s dad spent his final weeks afraid of a traumatic death.
Heather Black was a ‘born fighter’, who spent her life campaigning for the rights of others. But her own death was stripped of dignity.
