A Shropshire widower who watched his wife suffocate over the course of four days will urge Conservative MPs to back a change in the law on assisted dying.
Warwick Jackson will be speaking at the 'Dignity in Dying' fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham on Monday.
The plea comes as a bill awaits debate in the House of Lords, another is expected to introduced in the House of Commons, and the Prime Minister has committed to making parliamentary time available for debate on the issue. Mr Jackson will speak at a Dignity in Dying fringe event at the conference titled ‘Assisted dying: the Conservative case for reform’.Mr Jackson said:"We were repeatedly assured by doctors that palliative care would prevent Ann’s suffering, but she suffocated in front of me. For four long days and nights I had to watch my partner of 37 years struggling for breath, begging the nurse to end her suffering, something that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
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