Scots mum facing painful death from cancer plans trip to Australia to end life
dailyrecord.co.ukAn OAP has told how she is planning to travel 12,000 miles to Australia to avoid an agonising death from terminal cancer. Jackie Roberts, 72, watched her own parents suffer protracted and painful deaths from the illness.
She has now been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer – which claimed the life of her mum, Mabel – and is determined not to spend her final months dying slowly and painfully in a hospital.But strict laws on assisted dying in Scotland mean she is now planning to travel to the other side of the world to end her life.
Jackie has discussed going to live with son Colin in Sydney, Australia, where assisted dying was legalised in May.She said: “If push came to shove, I would consider going to Australia to use their assisted dying law.
It’s good to know it’s there, where my son is. But why can’t I have that choice at home in Scotland?” The death of Mabel left a lingering trauma for Jackie.
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