The debate around assisted dying resurfaced this week after Dame Esther Rantzen, 83, who has cancer, revealed she has joined Dignitas in case she needs to end her life.
things, including cancer. good job. landon riddle was a normal 2-year-old boy until he was diagnosed with leukemia. they told us he doesn t look sick, very sick, you know, to y all, but you know, he s on the brink of death. doctors in salt lake city immediately started intense chemotherapy and radiation. but told us that he probably wasn t going to make it, that he only had like an 8% chance to live 24 to 48 hours. the chemo made him violently ill. he was in intense pain. he suffered nerve damage in his legs and he went 25 days without eating. around the clock, he s usually on liquid morphine, ativan, and it really just didn t seem to be helping. and then she heard about medical marijuana. we really didn t have anything else to lose. one chemical in marijuana, thc, is responsible for the psychoactive effects or the high. it also combats nausea and pain. but another chemical called cbd