This morning my attention was drawn to a piece in their surprisingly lurid online edition which appeared, without reading it properly, to be generally in favour of changing the law to allow death with dignity when that is what is wanted and needed.
To quote from the end of the piece: 'Over the next year, Isobel had six weeks of daily chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment before undergoing another six months of chemo, which shrunk her tumour by 30 per cent.
But by August last year she was unable to walk. Even then she did not give up and was awarded this year's Sue Ryder Southern Woman of Courage Award for her bravery.
In March she went into Reading's Sue Ryder Hospice where she was given days to live. But she suffered for another seven weeks before dying in May at the age of 34.
'Isobel was the bravest girl imaginable,' said Mrs Eeley. 'She was born with cerebral palsy and was paralysed down the left side of her body but she lived life to the full, always pushing herself beyond her physical limits.
She never ever complained about what life had thrown at her and, even as a child and after many operations to help her mobility, she just smiled her way through life.
She certainly didn't deserve to die in the manner in which she did. I don't think she ever imagined that she would suffer so much or that it would get worse. It was just horrific. She begged us to end her life.
We talk about people living with cancer but we never talk about people dying with cancer.
That's why I feel so strongly that people should have the choice of how to end their lives.'
PS: the Daily Mail seems to know that we shop online with both Cotton Traders and Millets.
Reference 1: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4754526/Kate-Middleton-s-friend-dies-utmost-pain-tumour.html#ixzz4owoqkz4Q.
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