The 83-year-old journalist and campaigner, who has stage four lung cancer, said she feared for her family if they supported her with assisted dying.
Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid speaks to Dames Esther Rantzen ahead of the debate on assisted dying by journalist and campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen gained more than 200,000 signatures.
Speaking to Good Morning Britain Dame Esther said: "I had three deaths that happened very soon after each other, there was my husband, there was my mother and there was our dog and there's no question that our dog had the best death."We can offer our beloved pets a pain-free death but we can't offer it to our beloved family."
Jonathan Dimbleby, Dame Susan Hampshire and long-time campaigner Peter Tatchell are expected to join the demonstration outside Parliament later on Monday. One of the biggest reservations about legalising assisted dying is the fear severely disabled people may feel like they have no option but to end their life.
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