Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has slammed the 'psychopathic' UK laws around assisted dying which forced his ex-wife to end her own life alone.
Dave Rowntree has joined the calls for Assisted Dying to be legalised in the UK ) Dave Rowntree has criticised the UK laws surrounding assisted dying after his ex-wife was compelled to travel to Dignitas alone earlier this year. The Blur drummer called the laws ‘psychopathic’ after Paola Marra, who he wed in 1994, made the decision to end her life in Switzerland after a terminal cancer diagnosis.
’ Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland but only one organisation, Dignitas, is currently available to non-citizens, at a considerable expense. Initially, Rowntree tried to convince Marra not to make the journey and instead die at home but her mind was made up. Despite the UK laws, the Song 2 icon offered to travel with her, frantically searching for flights once she had arrived in Switzerland and called him stating she ‘didn’t know if she could do it on her own’.
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