A dying Brit has issued a heartbreaking appeal to politicians to change our “cruel ban” on assisted dying as she prepares to travel more than 11,000 miles to end her life.
Avril Barker, 51, who has terminal cancer, will have to undertake a gruelling 30-hour journey to New Zealand - where she has dual citizenship - to end her life on her own terms.
Calling for politicians to listen to the voices of suffering Brits on the final day of a Health Select Committee inquiry into assisted dying, she told The Mirror: “While the Government fails to act on changing this cruel ban on assisted dying, every year hundreds of dying people are taking their own lives, or like me, are looking to travel to a more compassionate country to have the death they want.”
