Woodhead,who has been diagnosed with cancer and motor neurone disease, speaks out before assisted dying debateChris Woodhead, or the former chief inspector of schools,has said he considered starving and dehydrating himself to death after he was diagnosed with cancer and kidney stones in addition to the motor neurone disease he has had since 2006.
Speaking in advance of a debate this week on Lord Falconer's bill to legalise assisted dying, Woodhead said doctors had been prepared to intervene in the past and "ease the passage from life to death" but now there was an anxiety as to whether they would be discovered.
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Source: theguardian.com