Woman who ended life at Dignitas leaves video urging for change in UK assisted dying law
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6KGY1)
Paola Marra says assisted dying is about reclaiming control and calls current UK law unfair and cruel' in the posthumous clip
Paola Marra, the 53-year-old from London who took her own life at Dignitas in Switzerland on Wednesday, has urged the public and politicians to help change the law on assisted dying in a posthumous video.
In a clip filmed before she flew to Zurich this week after suffering terminal bowel cancer since 2021, Marra said: As you watch this, I am dead. But you watching this could help change the laws around assisted dying."
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