A terminally ill campaigner who spent his final months trying to change the law on assisted dying has died at home, his family has announced.
He has been a huge voice for the campaign Dignity in Dying – a campaign that believes assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults should be legal in the UK.‘I found out I have terminal cancer on the day doctors told my daughterSince Katie’s death, David has spoken out in the media and to parliamentarians about the urgent need for a safe, compassionate assisted dying law for the UK.
David also regularly spoke to the media about his and Katie’s experiences and the need for law change and featured in an ITV documentary, a Channel 4 News story and a Guardian podcast. ‘He spent the past year fighting for an assisted dying law, knowing that any change would not come in time for him. But at the end of his life David was so frightened, struggling to breathe and in agony. It would have been so much kinder for him, and for us all, if he’d had the choice to die on his own terms.