Ryan Thomas has described being offered Dancing on Ice as 'fate' after a moment just before with his teenage daughter. The actor is one of the 12 celebrities that have signed up for the ITV skating competition this year.
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Dame Esther Rantzen's daughter has revealed that she is horrified at the idea of her mum flying out to Switzerland to die alone in an assisted dying clinic.
Rebecca Wilcox could face prosecution if she went out to Zurich with her 83-year-old mother, who is considering ending her life at Dignitas clinic if nothing can be done for her lung cancer.
The heartbroken daughter of the legendary TV presenter would like her mum, who is battling stage four lung cancer, to take her last breath at home while surrounded by her family.
She said: “My brother, sister and I would be next to her, telling jokes, sharing our final Wordle score, she would beat us at Scrabble, she would close her eyes – and possibly not wake up. That’s the way she would like to go, I think.”
However, Dame Esther, 83, is considering ending her life at the Dignitas clinic by herself instead, the Mirror reports.
If anyone were to go to Switzerland with her, they would be arrested and prosecuted upon their return to the UK which Rebecca branded as “horrific”.
She said: “Prisoners get a nicer farewell with their favourite last meal, whereas she goes into some strange conveyor belt where you are rushed through a process in an impersonal room without the people that you love because if they come with you they will be arrested.
"We wouldn’t be able to go because we’d be arrested on landing. I don’t want her to go. I don’t want her to die. I certainly don’t want her to go alone.”
Rebecca, 43, and her siblings Miriam, 45, and Joshua, 42, are now calling for a free vote in Parliament on assisted dying.
MPs voted against changing the law to let doctors help terminally ill people end their lives in 2015 so it can still lead to 14 years of jail.
In order to die with dignity, Dame
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