MPS must vote for assisted dying and let sick die with dignity

Esther Rantzen’s urgent appeal

- ASHLEIGH RAINBIRD

ESTHER Rantzen says MPs should vote to change the law and legalise assisted dying.

Dame Esther, 83, said: "I would say to parliamentarians, 'Think of the people you love in your own life, maybe who are older... and think how you would wish them to spend their last days and weeks".

The veteran presenter, who has stage four lung cancer, added: "It is agonising to watch someone you love suffer. Nobody wants that for their family. And we live in a day and age when it's perfectly possible to offer people a gentle, peaceful death.

"The memory of a bad death obliterates the happy memories that you would want to hang on to.

"Make this personal, think this through and then put it on the national agenda.

"Debate it carefully. And come, we hope, to a humane decision.