MPs are pushing for assisted deaths to be available for people suffering from Motor Neurone Disease or Parkinson’s who have a year left to live in a new amendment to the bill.
Laura Tomlinson, whose mother Kay Bennison died last year after a 12-year battle with Parkinson’s and other health complications, backed the new amendment saying that it would have given her mum more time to prepare for death.
MPs and campaigners say that people suffering from Motor Neurone Disease or Parkinson’s should have greater access to an assisted death.
The 70-year-old, who just wanted to use her first name, said: “I don’t know what the future holds, but Parkinson’s is a degenerative condition and I know that if I became very ill and less able to live a full, dignified life, then I would want to have the option of a facilitated death.”.
Fellow Labour MP Lizzi Collinge said that the legislation as it stands would be too limiting for people with conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease, which causes muscle weakness over time.
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