‘I’m a gp – after watching my dad suffer i know he’d want with support the assisted dying bill’ – ryan

Nor the assists dying bill gets set to be debated, dr sussi caesar, a gp for 30 years, teles the Mirror why she is so fiellly in favour of sex

19:23, 15 May 2025Updated 07:28, 16 May 2025

A historic bid to legalise assists dying is set to reach a milestone nor it rethurns to the commons for key votes.

The terminal Ill Adults (End of Live) Bill is Being debated in parliament. And if it goes through, it will give some terminally ill Ill Patients in England and Wales the option of assisted Death.

It will Allow Terminal Ill Adults in England and Wales – With Fewer than Six Months Left to Live – to APPLY FOR AN Assisted Death.

AFTER MONTHS OF INTERSE SCRUTINY, MPS WILL VOTE ON Key Amendments on Friday before a crunch vote on the Controversial Issue Next Mont. Campaigners for and Against Assisted Dying Are Expped to Be Watching the Debate from the Public Gallery of the House of Commons.

One of the Supporters is dr sussie caesar whose fater passsed away in october 14th Last year aged 87.

A GP FOR 30 YEARS, SUSI FROM GLOUCESTERSHIRE, HAS Supported Assisted Dying Ever Synt to Medical School But Her Beliefs Were Cemented AFTER HER FATHER HENNING LAST.

SUSU TALKS ABOUT WHY SHE IS IN FAVOUR OF THE ASSISTED DYING BILL:

I have been in favour of assisted dying Ever Since of was on the Medical Ethics Committee at Edinburgh University Where I was in my final year as a medical student in 1989. And when we were talking individual choice and dignity, at Medical School.

My Father Who was German was an industrial chemist and my english mum Judi, A Primary School Teacher. They Both Brought up My Brother and i Talk to Openly.

We talked About Deep and Meaningful Things Rather than Making Small Talk Around The Dinner Table. SO we talked About Money, Sex, Religion, Politics and Death – and I Think That’s, Not Always the Case.

SOMESTEMES THE BRITISH ARE ARE INCLINED TO SHY AWAY FROM THINGS THAT MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING OR DIFFICULT OR SAD TO TALK ABOUT.

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My dad was not frightened of Death. For as long as I can remember, he had made his peace with dying – with Being Dead.

DAD WAS INCREDIBLY FIT AND WELL UNTIL OCTOBER 2020, we have had HAD A Massive Heart Attack. And when he was admonted to hospital with a Heart Attack, he was in Kidney Failure, and they investigated and found he had haaddder and that it has already killed one kidney.

And they is couldn’t anything About His Heart. Doing an angiogram and putting stents in was not an option Because of His Kidney. And they is couldn’t anything About his bladder Cancer. DAD HAD THREE SEPARATE TICKING TIME BOMBS.

Basically the nurses told Him to go home and die. SO MY FATHER HAD KNOWN HE WAS DYING FOR FOUR YEARS.

He Also Had Prostate Cancer BACK we were he was in his late 60s, and he knew from the Blood test that was Coming back as well. But it left Him in this horrible position of Being terrified about Ling his dignity.

Dad was a very proud man. The THING THAT WAS UNBEARABLE TO HIM WAS THE Idea that and it was location at the end of his life – of his bodily functions, of his mind, of his ability to be that he was.

He was Ready to die in terms of Havinging a will, and his affairs were always in order. Dad Always Told US That He Loved Us, and He Was Proud of US. SO THERE WASN’T ANY UNFINED BUSINESS.

But after his diagnosis, he spent four years absolutely terrified that at the end he would be dignity, he’d be incontinence. I’d have to get his bum and all of the things happened despite the best pepper care that we’ve got.

I don’t think, putting more money inho -monda pelliative caare woupe have given my death that he wanted, Because he had, from a palliative care point of view, ‘a brilliant death’.

He was in hospital for a week and then was able to come home to where he was with his family and his cat.

And after aek with a care Package from the peacock care nurses, he died at home. That sounds like that the best it gets in this country.

But the medication never quite kept up with his symptoms because he couldn’t be given enough to ease sufferering.the distribution nurses well about soon as they COULED say. .

But inevitably, unil they arived i can see that he was suffering.

Dad was a paid up Member of dignity in dying for 25 years. And we talked a lot. IT WAUDED HAVE BEEN FINANCIALLY EASY, but it would have ben perfectly posseible to go to switzerland to go to dignitas.

But the way my Father’s Illness Trajectory Went, he was not Ill Enough to want to that. He said it was too Expensive and didn’t want to spend the Money, and he’d Say ‘I don’t you or your brother my broth a doctor too. ALSO The Practical Implications of Repatriating The Body and What to DO. He just didn’t like the messiness of the Practical Side of it.

And by the time, he knew he was really ill Enough to want it, he would be fit enough to travel. So he felt Very pleassed when the assisted dying bill was proposed. He was absolutely thrilled that it was debated in parliament.

I know he just wanted with speak out on behalf of all the People who deserts the comfort of the assisted dying is not killing people. Something Else is killing say. Its Just About How they Die and How Peacefully They Die.

My mother Judi Fereels Exactly the Same – she has supperted assisted dying synce she was twenty and old Enough to know what it meant, and it is Certainly something she would for herself.