Dame Esther Rantzen, who is battling terminal cancer, has made the heartbreaking confession that spending time with her grandchildren is "precious" as it could be her last spring.The 83-year-old TV presenter has signed up to the Switzerland-based euthanasia clinic Dignitas as she hopes to be able to end her own life when she feels ready, but doesn't want her family to face legal trouble.She said according to the Mirror: “I’m watching the spring flowers come out, thinking ‘This is probably my last spring.’ When I talk to my grandchildren when they come and visit me, I’m very aware these moments are precious.
They may be the last memories they have of me."Dame Esther continued to BBC Radio 4's Today programme: “My own death is constantly in my mind.
It would give me so much confidence if I could also know that however the illness progresses, whatever pain it causes, wherever it strikes me next, I will still have the choices of a pain free, dignified private death surrounded by the people I love. "I’m not demanding that everybody in the world agrees with me, I’m just saying let’s debate all the issues now that we’ve got international evidence and we know the public attitude is in favour."It comes as The Health and Social Care Committee reported evidence that some countries which allowed assisted dying could have better end-of-life care.
MPs said the UK government must make plans for if the law is changed in Scotland, the Isle of Man or Jersey, where new measures are being considered, but didn't put forward a vote on the issue. Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Dame Esther said she was “disappointed” that the committee did not call for a vote,
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