Esther Rantzen has said she will go to Dignitas to die alone as she made a desperate plea to the government
The 85-year-old, who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2023, admitted she is making plans to travel to Dignitas in Switzerland to end her life as it’s “the only way I can have an assisted death”.
On a phone call with Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway on Friday (12 September), Dame Esther said: “I’m not afraid of death, but I am, as someone once said, afraid of dying, I’m afraid of dying badly”.
The legislation, which would make assisted dying available to adults in England and Wales with a terminal diagnosis of less than six months to live, is being debated in the House of Lords over two days.
