Dame Esther Rantzen: 'Law on assisted dying is a mess'

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The 83-year-old Childline founder, who has stage four lung cancer, revealed in December she had joined the assisted dying clinic, Dignitas, in Switzerland.

She told Sky's Gareth Barlow: "When someone is at their last stages of illness and asking for someone to help them die, this should be allowed and the law needs to be changed."

Watch the interview in full here.

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