‘I was denied being with her in her last moments’: campaigners on assisted dying bill
As bill to allow terminally ill people in England and Wales to end their own lives enters parliament, supporters of the law change speak out
Two months after Beverly Sand was told that her oesophageal cancer was terminal, she took her life, alone when her husband was away for a couple of days. In a note she left him, she asked for forgiveness and told him: “You are the love of my life.”
Even though Peter Wilson could prove he was 120 miles away at the time of her death, he was questioned by police for seven hours, fingerprinted, photographed and swabbed for gunshot residue. No gun had been involved in Sand’s death.
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