Blur drummer says UK law on assisted dying is ‘psychopathic’
Dave Rowntree speaks out about his ex-wife’s choice to take her life at Dignitas in Switzerland
The Blur drummer, Dave Rowntree, has attacked the UK law on assisted dying as “psychopathic” as he spoke out for the first time about the choice of his terminally ill ex-wife to take her own life at Dignitas in Switzerland.
Rowntree said that the choice facing dying people who are facing extreme suffering was “brutal” and the criminalisation of assisted dying made him “bloody angry” as he called for a change in the law to allow adults with months to live to be allowed help to take their own lives.
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