“MY mum shouldn’t have had to do that. My mum shouldn’t have to have starved herself to death.”
SNP MSP Elena Whitham had warned her audience to have “hankies at the ready” before she started a heartfelt plea to legalise assisted dying in Scotland. It would prove a prescient comment.
Whitham spoke in front of an audience of SNP delegates about her experience in the final weeks of her mother Irene Todd’s life, and how a “more humane” approach to euthanasia could have made it better.
