Dave Rowntree said the current legal system showed 'absolutely no empathy for the sufferer' as he joined calls for a change in the law ahead of the second reading of a bill later this month proposing the legalisation of assisted dying in England and Wales.
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has called the UK's current assisted dying law 'psychopathic' after his terminally ill ex-wife travelled to Dignitas in Switzerland to die alone. The 60-year-old supported former music industry and charity sector worker Paola Marra - who he married in the 1990s - as she battled breast and bowel cancer before she flew alone to Zurich in March following a terminal diagnosis.
' Rowntree offered to travel with Marra to Switzerland Rowntree said he had offered to go to Switzerland with Ms Marra, after trying to persuade her of what he considered a more comfortable death in her home in London, but she said no. She changed her mind for a time before later deciding to die alone, and pushed him to back the campaign to change the assisted dying law.
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