I don't know what I would choose for my own death when it comes to it, but I do know that I don't want another person I love to not have that choice for themselves.

I believe it should be every terminally ill adults choice when, where and how they should die. I wish my dad had this choice. His body refused to give up and he was forced to endure every stage of his mind shutting down. I even felt complicit in providing care that kept him alive against his wishes

I never gave euthanasia much thought at all, dismissing it as things that affected 'other people'. BUT having watched my father beg us to leave the morphine out next to him / try to throw himself down the steps / rage against dying and desperate for it it to end, I now have very strong views.

But despite all the amazing and faultless accessibility to palliative care - there is still a gap, which can only be filled by allowing a dying person the choice of when they want to end it.

4) the NHS has its problems, but it can also be amazing. Home visits from occupational therapists to adapt a home allowing someone to be discharged from hospital when there are no more treatments; a GP always available to field calls from panicked relatives who are trying their best.

3) medicine is amazing. There are medicines available to help with so many side effects of the body deteriorating. Catheters to reduce accidents, infusions to settle agitation, tablets for pain relief and seizure control.

2) palliative care is amazing and we are incredibly lucky to have nurses and doctors who willingly enter into a stranger's life while a figurative bomb is exploding and provide skilled, gentle care, quality advice and companionship for that final journey.

1) dying from / with a deteriorating neurological condition is awful for everyone. Watching someone u love lose their higher reasoning; their self- governance; their interests and passions; their intelligence; their decision making; their routines; their empathy; their bodily functions is torture.

Tricksy these hamsters.

What's more disturbing is that there's a huge market for it.

This is my life.

I don't know, I think if I was on the jury I would have found her guilty (based on what I read and listened to in the pod cast). I think the jury got it right.

The misunderstanding is huge. 'Ah, these lanes join up 1/2 a mile away; let me stop, indicate and attempt to join the other lane now'