Article 78A9S Esther Rantzen now ‘too physically fragile’ to end her life in Switzerland

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

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Raphael Boyd
from World news | The Guardian on (#78A9S)

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

Esther Rantzen has said she is no longer able to travel to Switzerland to end her life because she has become too physically fragile".

Rantzen, who presented the TV current affairs programme That's Life! for 21 years and founded the youth support charity Childline, had intended to end her life in a Dignitas assisted dying clinic in Switzerland after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2023.

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