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My mum is dying a slow, horrible, painful death but I STILL can’t support right-to-die bill – here’s why

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My mum is dying a slow, horrible, painful death but I STILL can’t support right-to-die bill – here’s why

My mum is dying a slow, horrible, painful death but I STILL can’t support right-to-die bill – here’s why

Source: The Sun

Published: Feb, 11 2025 21:00

I AM watching my mum die. Slowly. Underneath the ghastly shroud of the last stages of Alzheimer’s disease, my frail, fierce mother’s Irish blue eyes flash desperately, trying to communicate with me now that her voice and most of her body has failed. This is a horrible death. I feel Mum would not want to live through this indignity. I suspect she would have chosen to end her life years ago had she known she was going to be diagnosed with dementia back in 2020.

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