'I drove my husband to Swiss clinic so he could die smiling ...not gasping for breath in UK'

Barbara Shooter, 67, drove husband Adrian, 74, to Basel after he suffered months of torment with Motor Neurone Disease.
She describes the system in Britain as "cruel" and insists we should not be "outsourcing compassion to a foreign country".
The complex process also cost the couple £15,000, excluding travel.
"For a lot of people that's completely out of the question," said Barbara. "Then you have a sort of apartheid system where you have people who have got money can afford to do it.
"Because you can't do it in this country, anyone who can't afford to do it can't do it and that's shocking." Barbara's comments, in a national newspaper, back the Daily Express's Give Us Our Last Rights campaign in which we are fighting Dame Esther Rantzen change in the law.
alongside to force a She tells how Adrian was diagnosed with MND in 2021 and passed away at the Pegasos assisted dying clinic in December 2022.
The former head of Chiltern Railways had been very active, even taking part in the Peking to Paris Rally with his wife in 2010, driving a 70-year-old Ford Model A.
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