The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is currently being considered in Parliament. This bill proposes to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales who are mentally competent, have a life expectancy of six months or less and meet specific criteria outlined in the bill.
In late April last year my 91-year-old mother Shirley Conran, the feisty campaigner for women’s rights, author and journalist, was rushed to St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington with pneumonia. She was put in the intensive care unit, hooked up to a myriad tubes and bleeping machines, and put on a course of antibiotics.
