A terminally-ill man will end his own life today at the Dignitas suicide clinic where his wife chose to die 18 months ago. Bob Cole,...
A terminally-ill man will end his own life today at the Dignitas suicide clinic where his wife chose to die 18 months ago.
Bob Cole, 68, who has battled an aggressive form of lung cancer for the last month, has chosen to die in Switzerland – where his wife Ann Hall, 67, died last February.
Mr Cole, who will end his life at 2pm afte being given three months to live, has demanded the law in Britain is changed to allow assisted dying.
He told The Sun: 'I should be able to die with dignity in my own country, in my own bed. The law needs to change.'
He said he has chosen the time of his death because he 'doesn't want to die painfully and slowly eating chocolate ice cream'.
The former carpenter, from Chester, Cheshire, travelled to the Swiss clinic because he has 'no wish to die in pain without any dignity' and will end his own life while listening to Chris de Burgh's Here Is Your Paradise at 2pm today.
Having been told he had just three months left to live after being diagnosed with mesothelioma - a cancer associated with exposure to asbestos – Mr Cole said he saw no other option but to travel to the Zurich clinic where assisted suicide is legal.
Mr Cole said his cancer had seen him bent double, 'crouching like an animal', adding: 'That's no life.'
In asking MPs to be 'sympathetic', he told the paper: 'The politicians need to have the guts to change this law. Just bite the bullet. Accept that the British public want this change. If they don't it will be forced upon them because the public feeling is overwhelming.'
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