Dame Esther Rantzen, who has stage four lung cancer, has pleaded with MPs to join the Parliament debate on assisted dying in the UK after becoming a member of clinic Dignitas
Dame Esther Rantzen, who has stage four lung cancer, has revealed she has become a Dignitas member - but what really happens at the controversial assistant dying clinic?
Janet Appleyard used her £20,000 life savings to go to Zurich by private jet in February 2021 after a debilitating stroke, needing oxygen on her final journey by plane and then taxi to Dignitas.
MANDY APPLEYARD: That my strong, stoical mum had wanted to end her life for nearly two years had been heartbreaking. For my sister and me to witness her suicide was unthinkable.
Mandy Appleyard said taking her mother Janet to Zurich so she could carry out an assisted suicide was "a day of fathomless sadness" but she did not know it would result in a police investigation