Assisted dying 'can be best thing to do'

Cancer sufferer's plea for law change

- SOPHIE HUSKISSON

A TEACHER with terminal cancer who played a key role in Labour's election campaign has backed calls to legalise assisted dying.

Nathaniel Dye, 38, who shared his cancer story at the Labour manifesto launch, is pleading with MPs to think of the "profound difference" they can make by giving people control over their deaths.

The campaigner, whose stage four incurable bowel cancer has spread to his liver, lungs and brain, said he believes giving terminally ill people the option of assisted dying is the kind thing to do.