Miriam, whose father Joseph was a Glasgow-born GP, is a patron of My Death My Decision.
The Call the Midwife actress said she was “in favour” of the legislation and added: “I would strongly offer my support.”
“It is each person’s right to choose death if they wish but protection must be laid into the legislation to protect the person who wishes to die and the person assisting them.She said “any illness which prevented me from communicating” would cause her to want to end her own life. Asked if she’d come to Scotland to do so if the right to die became law here, she said: “I come to Scotland to live. I would be perfectly happy to die in Scotland if it so happened.
She said her GP dad would have wished to protect life at all costs but added: “He always respected and understood the needs of his paralysed patients.”
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