Personal stories
Telling personal stories can be extremely powerful. Each one is a painful reminder that our current law is broken and needs to change.
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Noel
ConwayNoel Conway had motor neurone disease and spent some of his last days of life challenging the law on assisted dying.
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Sandy
BridenI want to live as fully as possible in my remaining time, without the fear of a painful death hanging over me.
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Margaret
JohnI know that the time will come when there is no more effective treatment available and the end may well be undignified and painful.
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Bob
ColeBob Cole was one of our most active campaigners who, in August 2015, travelled to Dignitas after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
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Heather
PrattenMy son Nigel had the hereditary degenerative neurological disorder, Huntington’s Disease.
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Andy
SquiresAndy and Peter Squires helped their mother travel to Dignitas so that she could have the assisted death she wanted.
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Debbie
PurdyRight-to-die campaigner Debbie Purdy won a landmark ruling to clarify the law on assisted dying.
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Diane
PrettyDiane had motor neurone disease and desperately wanted a doctor to help her to die.
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John
CloseKnowing that John would be in control of his death was a tremendous source of comfort for me as well as for John.