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Daughter of former rugby great Ged Dunn supports Assisted Dying

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Nichola Watson and her family watched her beloved dad Ged suffer in agony for months, wishing only to die, as cancer spread from his prostate and coursed through his bones.

She is now a strong supporter of MSP Liam McArthur’s Assisted Dying Bill, which is being considered by the Scottish Parliament.

Ged Dunn was a famous former England rugby league player who spent much of his time in Aberdeen with Nichola’s young family.

He’d lived a hugely active life as a professional sportsman then a PE teacher and dad, before revelling in his role as an all-action grandfather.She tearfully recounted how, in the final weeks, Ged would say his goodbyes to his close family, believing and hoping that each tortured day would be his last, such was the pain in his body.By the time he died he had endured cancer, a heart attack and then Covid.He was paralysed from the waist down and needed a massive cocktail of painkillers just to get through each day, leaving him mentally traumatised and desperate for the pain to end.Nichola said she was grateful that the family were able to be at Ged’s bedside at his home in Hull at the end.She said: “My memories of my wonderful dad, all the family’s memories, have been distorted and tarnished, spoiled by suffering and guilt.“He didn’t want to be in such pain, didn’t want to be in the world.

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