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A right to dignity

If ever there was a story ripe for Australian Story to document, it is one written by former TEN newsreader and Sky News presenter Tracy Spicer, struggling to come to terms with her dying mother’s wishes and the subject of euthanasia.

“At 3.17am on October 25, 1999, I considered suffocating my mother with a pillow,” she writes in today’s Daily Telegraph.

“I didn’t view it as murder. It would be an act of mercy.

Spicer’s mother contracted pancreatic cancer and given just seven months to live.

“Mum and Dad had always been vocal supporters of the right to die with dignity.

“Many a discussion in the family living room concluded with either one of them saying: ‘If I ever lose control of my faculties, please, put me down. I don’t want to live like that.'”

You can read her full article here.

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