An OAP has told how she is planning to travel 12,000 miles to Australia to avoid an agonising death from terminal cancer.
Jackie Roberts, 72, watched her own parents suffer protracted and painful deaths from the illness. She has now been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer – which claimed the life of her mum, Mabel – and is determined not to spend her final months dying slowly and painfully in a hospital.
But strict laws on assisted dying in Scotland mean she is now planning to travel to the other side of the world to end her life. Jackie has discussed going to live with son Colin in Sydney, Australia, where assisted dying was legalised in May.
