Carol Vorderman, a Welsh TV and radio broadcaster, has been transparent and honest about her final plans. Speaking on her own LBC radio show, Carol said she would travel overseas to have assisted suicide since she would “never forget” the suffering her mother endured before passing away.
Carol talked about how caring for her mother Edwina Jones at the end of her life affected her own decisions in an emotional piece on her radio show. Carol also mentioned Dame Esther Rantzen, who recently disclosed that, after receiving a fatal cancer diagnosis, she has joined the Swiss assisted dying clinic Dignitas.
“I want to share with you something that I haven’t shared with many people up until now, and I will tell you about my family,” the woman stated. And that is how, like Dame Esther, I have already made the decision to fly overseas and pass away in that manner if I am given a fatal medical diagnosis. with dignity and refuse to put my family and I through the one possible route in the UK.
“I was really close to my mother. I mean, very, really close. My mother was a single parent, thus I was raised in extreme poverty. From the time I was 21 until her death in 2017, my mother shared my life with me. Until then, she was everything to me. From the time she was in her early seventies, Mum had three malignancies. She had undergone ovarian cancer treatment, kidney cancer treatment, and a massive melanoma removal from her head.
She was in a great deal of discomfort two years later. She also had trouble eating adequately. And she started to get really nervous about leaving… I brought her to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, where she underwent tests and scans, and spent the night there. Upon my early return the following day, the consultant informed her that her cancer was fatal.
She was given the option to refuse chemotherapy, radiation, or any other form of treatment, but she chose not to. She desired to be treated without it and to pass away without it. And hearing those comments as a daughter was really difficult.