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Esther Rantzen's daughter gives a heartbreaking health update on star's terminal cancer diagnosis in emotional interview
The Childline founder and broadcaster, 84, was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2023, and at one point was told she had just weeks to live.
Speaking to the BBC Today's programme a year ago Dame Esther said a change in the law regarding assisted dying 'would mean that I could look forward in confidence to a death which is pain-free surrounded by people I love'. Assisted dying is legal for terminally ill people in several US states, as well as large chunks of Australia, and in New Zealand, Canada, Austria, Spain and Ecuador. Proposals are also moving forward on Jersey, while MPs voted in support of a Bill from MP Kim Leadbeater to legalise it in England and Wales last November.
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