Overview
- In a Mail on Sunday article, the 86-year-old said she is preparing for how to end her life if legislation allowing assisted dying is not enacted.
- She wrote that she wants to die at home with loved ones present and, when ready, take a drug that would send her to sleep.
- Leith said her family could not help her because assisting a suicide is illegal under current UK law.
- A longtime patron of Dignity in Dying, she links her stance to her brother David’s agonising death from bone cancer in 2012.
- The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passed the House of Commons last year and is now under House of Lords scrutiny, and Leith noted tensions with her son, MP Danny Kruger, who opposes changing the law.