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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Harriet Sherwood

Esther Rantzen urges MPs to vote on ‘vital issue’ of assisted dying

Esther Rantzen smiling in a garden
Esther Rantzen, who has stage 4 lung cancer, says she may have to travel to Dignitas in Zurich alone to protect her family from prosecution. Photograph: David McHugh/Brighton Pictures/Shutterstock

Esther Rantzen, whose terminal cancer diagnosis led her to campaign for the legalisation of assisted dying, has issued an impassioned plea to MPs to vote this week on a “vital life-and-death issue”.

The television personality told MPs “my time is running out” but the issue was one “the public care desperately about” and said it might not be debated by MPs “for another decade” if the legislation did not pass.

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