UNCOVERED: Dignitas - Caught on Camera

Dame Esther Rantzen became a key figure in the assisted dying conversation

A debate in Parliament in April 2024 saw Dame Esther singled out for the contribution she had made to the public discourse.

Evening Standard · Sep 30

Dame Esther Rantzen became crucial figure in assisted dying debate after terminal diagnosis

She said her own experience showed ‘why it’s so important that future generations will have the choice that is denied to me and other adults’

The Independent UK · Sep 30

Esther Rantzen, TV presenter and Childline founder, dies aged 86

Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted-dying campaigner

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30

Esther Rantzen Says Assisted-Dying Ban Is 'Messy and Cruel' After Her 'Last Chance' Is Gone

Dame Esther Rantzen says terminal lung cancer has left her too physically fragile to travel to Dignitas, as MPs prepare to debate assisted dying legislation in England and Wales.

International Business Times UK · Sep 10

Esther Rantzen now ‘too physically fragile’ to end her life in Switzerland

Broadcaster, 86, had intended to end her life in Swiss clinic after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2023

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10

Esther Rantzen says she is ‘too fragile’ to travel to Dignitas to end her life

The prominent campaigner for the legalisation of assisted dying insisted the law must ‘change quickly’

The Independent UK · Sep 10

My plea to MPs: this is the final chance to save the assisted dying bill. Make your mark on history

Any MP not voting for it on Friday will condemn thousands of us to die in agony. The public is hugely in favour too, so do the right thing, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10

‘I want my choice’: terminally ill people join Rankin to demand revival of assisted dying bill

British photographer collaborates with Dignity in Dying in run-up to private member’s ballot, after stalling of England and Wales bill in Lords

The Guardian - UK · May 17

House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP

Kim Leadbeater says people are ‘extremely angry’ at delaying tactics of peers as time runs out to pass bill

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20

UK deaths at Dignitas at second-highest level in two decades

The latest figures come as a proposed law for England and Wales to legalise assisted dying returns for debate in the House of Lords on Friday.

Evening Standard · Mar 20