Dame Esther Rantzen's daughter Rebecca Wilcox got emotional talking about her mum considering assisted dying in Switzerland.
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00:00 We're allowed to make decisions
00:01 about everything in our own lives.
00:03 We're allowed to make this decision,
00:04 and I know this is constantly said, about our pets.
00:06 And yet if mum is experiencing such dreadful symptoms
00:10 and there is no hope,
00:12 then why shouldn't she be able to make that decision?
00:14 She said to me,
00:16 "We have medicines and drugs that help prolong life.
00:20 Why are we allowed to use those
00:23 and not allowed to use the ones
00:24 that make you have a dignified death?"
00:27 I mean, that's what dignitas is.
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