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A widow whose husband took his own life at Dignitas has called for a change in the law to allow assisted dying for terminally ill people in the UK.

We arrived at the luxury hotel in Zurich. Flying Nigel there or going by train would have been preferable but was impossible given the deterioration in his condition.

JULIE CASSON: My husband, who, as a scaffolder, once thought nothing of carrying two 13ft wooden boards on a single shoulder, could no longer lift his toothbrush.

Death toyed with Nigel, my darling husband, for ten years. It dragged its feet as the life dripped from him like water from a tap, leaving him to languish in a world where there is no mercy.