Paola Marra leaves behind a message for politicians, pleading for a change to the UK's current 'cruel law' criminalising assisted dying, before she passed away.
A cancer sufferer who travelled to Dignitas to die alone recorded a heartbreaking final message pleading for a change to the UK's law criminalising assisted dying.
In an accompanying letter, she told party leaders in Westminster she had been forced to die alone because she did not want her loved ones 'to be questioned by the police or get into trouble'.
Rowntree said the current law results in people who wish to end their lives 'creeping around like criminals'.Assisted suicide is banned in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a maximum prison sentence of 14 years. 'The pain and suffering can become unbearable. It's a slow erosion of dignity, the loss of independence, the stripping away of everything that makes life worth living.
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