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It's time to change the law to allow assisted dying | Assisted dying

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Readers respond to the long read on Avril Henry, an 82-year-old woman who was denied the help she wanted to end her life
Campaigners for assisted dying. Photograph: Rob Stothard/Getty Images
Campaigners for assisted dying. Photograph: Rob Stothard/Getty Images
Fri 12 Mar 2021 11.35 EST
Last modified on Fri 12 Mar 2021 11.40 EST
Katie Engelhart described the courageous 82-year-old Avril Henry, who lived alone, had no close family, was wracked by multiple but untreatable problems so common in elderly people, and had had enough of her previously full life (‘My body is unserviceable and well past its sell-by date’: the last days of Avril Henry, 9 March). She was, she said, “dying of everything and of nothing in particular”. And yet, fully mentally competent, she was not able to have the assisted death she earnestly and logically craved. She had to do it herself, but not before the police, accompanied by a social worker, a doctor and a psychiatri ....

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'My body is unserviceable and well past its sell-by date': the last days of Avril Henry

Last modified on Mon 29 Mar 2021 07.00 EDT
In the late morning, on the day she planned to die, in April 2016, Avril Henry went to get the poison from the downstairs bathroom. She walked past the padded rocking chair where she sometimes sat for hours with her feet tilted above her head to ease the swelling in her ankles. She steadied herself against the countertop before reaching up to the top shelf and feeling around for the glass bottles that she had hidden there, behind the toilet cleaner and the baby powder.
“I got it imported illegally,” Avril had said of the drug supply. “It’s quite easy to do, but very risky.” She was at her home in Brampford Speke, a small village in south-west England with 300 residents, a pub called the Lazy Toad, a church, St Peter’s, and a parish council on which Avril had served several terms, earning a reputation as brilliant and steadfast, if sometimes needlessly adversarial. ....

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