Why Must We Travel to Dignitas to Die?

Daily PostJanuary 06, 2012

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AUTHOR PRATCHETT CALLS FOR UK TO OFFER ASSISTED DYING OPTION POOR quality end-of life care in the UK is driving people to travel abroad to die and the UK needs to provide an alternative, author Sir Terry Pratchett has said.

Sir Terry, who has campaigned for a change to the law over assisted dying since being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2007, said care homes have the same connotations for some older people as workhouses used to have.

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Why Must We Travel to Dignitas to Die?

Yesterday's report from the Commission on Assisted Dying, which he helped fund, did not go far enough, he said, but ...

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