Why I took my wife to die at Dignitas

Before her illness, when she was the devoted mother and bubbly, creative presence who lit up his own more procedural approach to life, he had been, he says, “one of those people who considered Dignitas part of a slippery slope” in an inevitable cheapening of life. “I was just horrified by the whole thing,” he says, sitting looking out over the garden in his Kent home that Elaine planned and laid out. “And Elaine was absolutely in love with life. She never would have contemplated this route in normal circumstances.” But circumstances were anything but normal a few months after her diagnosis. Telegraph