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Dame Esther Rantzen’s daughter, Rebecca Wilcox, has issued a last-minute plea to MPs to again as we speak’s vote on assisted dying.
Ms Wilcox has joined demonstrators outdoors parliament this morning, forward of the crunch debate and vote later.
Speaking to the Express, she mentioned: “We really believe in kindness, compassion and choice and I just hope the MPs reflect that.”
“The majority of the country believes what we believe and I’m quietly hopeful.”
Rebecca, who wore a pink blazer and prime, mentioned her mum was watching the talk from dwelling.
Campaigners who wish to see the regulation supported by MPs unfurled a banner studying: “We’re connected by a dying wish: let us choose.”
Speaking to the Daily Express, Catie Fenner mentioned she is happy the Bill has reached this stage.
Ms Fenner, who waved goodbye to her mum when she left in a taxi for Dignitas, mentioned she is out demonstrating this morning “because I believe in terminally ill, mentally competent adults having choice over their deaths.”
“My mum was able to have that but she had to go to Dignitas and we couldn’t be there. I don’t want any family to go through what we did.”
Josh Cook, 34, revealed his mom took her personal life final yr because of Huntington’s illness. Mr Cook, who additionally has the sickness, mentioned as we speak’s vote has been coming “for over 20 years”, and known as on MPs to “end generational traumas, to give us the choice to have a better end of life than we currently have.”
The Daily Express Give Us Our Last Rights campaign helps efforts to legalise assisted dying for terminally ailing folks nearing the tip of life.
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