Devastated friends have paid tribute to a Scots mum after her death from terminal cancer, following a five year battle with the disease.
08.09.2022 - 07:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk
An OAP has told how she is planning to travel 12,000 miles to Australia to avoid an agonising death from terminal cancer.
Jackie Roberts, 72, watched her own parents suffer protracted and painful deaths from the illness. She has now been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer – which claimed the life of her mum, Mabel – and is determined not to spend her final months dying slowly and painfully in a hospital.
But strict laws on assisted dying in Scotland mean she is now planning to travel to the other side of the world to end her life. Jackie has discussed going to live with son Colin in Sydney, Australia, where assisted dying was legalised in May.
She said: “If push came to shove, I would consider going to Australia to use their assisted dying law. It’s good to know it’s there, where my son is. But why can’t I have that choice at home in Scotland?”
The death of Mabel left a lingering trauma for Jackie. And the former tax worker is now being treated at Edinburgh’s Western Hospital, where dad Bill died of prostate cancer.
She said: “He was in so much pain. I had to say to the staff – if it was your dad would you let him die like that? Then they increased his morphine. But I’m not criticising health professionals at all.
“I can’t say enough about my healthcare team at the Western who go above and beyond for me and in whom I have great confidence. They are better than the best. The care I’ve had and am still getting is excellent.”
Jackie, from Edinburgh, was one of 14,000 people to respond to a public consultation on MSP Liam McArthur’s members’ Bill on assisted dying at Holyrood – a record response.
Almost 80 per cent of respondents supported it. The Bill’s final proposal is being lodged at Holyrood today and could become
Devastated friends have paid tribute to a Scots mum after her death from terminal cancer, following a five year battle with the disease.
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