βOnce you take choice away, thereβs nothing leftβ: assisted dying edges closer in Jersey, but can they protect against a βduty to dieβ?
Hospice patient Lynne Cottignies welcomes proposals to make it legal to help eligible people end their lives. Many others have serious concerns
Lynne Cottignies has been planning her funeral. A wicker coffin and a church service with Ave Maria and All Things Bright and Beautiful, followed by a wake at the Royal Jersey golf club where she was lady captain a few years ago. Later, close friends and family will scatter her ashes on a beach near her Jersey home, a spot where they have enjoyed happy sunset barbecues.
Between now and then, Cottignies, 71, faces the prospect of increasing and potentially unbearable pain as the cancer that started in her breast spreads. βIβve had a lot of different chemo treatments, and just about every side-effect possible. But now timeβs up. Iβm too weak for anything else.β
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