Listen: Dame Esther Rantzen reveals she is considering assisted dying
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Dame Esther Rantzen has revealed that she has joined assisted dying clinic Dignitas.
The 83-year-old said she would consider going there to end her life should her next lung cancer scan show she is getting worse.
“I have joined Dignitas,” she told The Today Podcast hosted by presenters Nick Robinson and Amol Rajan.
Dame Esther said that she had discussed the issue with her family.
She said: “I explained to them that actually I don’t want their last memories of me to be painful because if you watch someone you love having a bad death, that memory obliterates all the happy times and I don’t want that to happen.”
