So much has been said recently about my End-of-Life Choice bill which is sitting in the ballot waiting against the odds to be drawn out. The conversation has been stimulated again by Evans Mott’s trial (discharged without conviction for helping his wife to prepare for her lonely suicide), and the death of Gretha Appleby (pronounced by the coroner recently to be self-inflicted, which is what she always said she would do when she thought the moment had come for her). Here is Tony Nicklinson’s story, as told by his daughter. Read it and tell me if you don’t understand yet. Then keep talking.
Hopefully it comes out of the ballot, as someone’s right to bow out with dignity and facility rather than becoming a shambling wreck is important.