‘I want a choice’: terminally ill women urge early Commons vote on assisted dying

Two cancer patients call on election winner to end options of suffering, death at Dignitas, or taking their own livesTwo women with incurable cancer are urging the next UK prime minister to allow a vote on assisted dying in the first 100 days of the new parliament and free them from fear of a painful death.Sophie Blake, 51, a former Sky Sports reporter, and Helen Skelton, 56, a psychotherapist, who both have stage 4 cancer, said the next prime minister should make a free vote a priority to stop people having to choose between unnecessary suffering, going to Dignitas in Switzerland, or taking their own lives at home. Continue reading...

‘I want a choice’: terminally ill women urge early Commons vote on assisted dying

Two cancer patients call on election winner to end options of suffering, death at Dignitas, or taking their own lives

Two women with incurable cancer are urging the next UK prime minister to allow a vote on assisted dying in the first 100 days of the new parliament and free them from fear of a painful death.

Sophie Blake, 51, a former Sky Sports reporter, and Helen Skelton, 56, a psychotherapist, who both have stage 4 cancer, said the next prime minister should make a free vote a priority to stop people having to choose between unnecessary suffering, going to Dignitas in Switzerland, or taking their own lives at home. Continue reading...