'Your Own Choice' Esther Rantzen's Daughter On Her Mother Joining Dignitas | Good Morning Britain
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- A year on from her cancer diagnosis, Esther Rantzen revealed that she has joined Dignitas, and would consider assisted dying should there be no improvement in her condition, to prevent her family from going through her health decline.
Esther Rantzen's daughter Rebecca Wilcox talks exclusively to GMB about her mother's decision to join Dignitas and consider assisted dying.
Broadcast on 19/12/23
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What a lovely daughter she put the case so well, thank you Esther for bringing this subject to us all, we should have this right and it should be addressed by government NOW why should we end our life in dread and pain. Have the best Christmas Esther with your loving family ❤
Jimmy Saville???
Having watched my mum die painfully with cancer I’m so glad Canada has MAID . There will always be bad actors but why should the majority of people suffer horrendous death to prevent this great service. As a LTC nurse I applaud anyone who limits the suffering of critically ill people with no hope of recovery. Time for people to be given the same compassion that we given our beloved pets.
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As a young ish person with COPD I know what's coming and I'd like the choice ❤
heartbreaking situation. hope they can enjoy their xmas.
Jimmy Saville???
Esther has every right to make her own decision,the laws in this country are outdated,it’s nobody else’s business if your terminally ill and in pain if you decide to end it and I don’t know why people think they have a right to interfere with their decision,it’s their life to live or die as they see fit. I have seen people die of cancer one of which was my own sister and in the latter stages it was horrific to stand there not being able to help her in any way. The law needs changing only if there’s no hope of a cure to all people to make their own decision when the time comes,it’s ridiculous that people can be prosecuted for making that decision and going to Switzerland for this service when it could be done here in a special clinic with their loved ones with them.
Exactly:- It is no one else’s business . Not even the Governments on this.
People should do as they please, it's a free country we are told. Just don't tell the rest of us. We don't need to know.!
Did Dame Esther Rancid ever apologise to the two innocent young people whom she helped denigrate? Ironic that when Savile died she spoke out against witch hunts.
... A brave & courageous decision.
Have an absolutely fabulous Christmas together 😊.... 🇬🇧
What an extremely brave person. Let’s hope this law is finally changed. People who are against this haven’t suffered extreme pain
Many live daily in extreme pain but want to live as long as they can for love of their family and the love they have for them.
Life and their love one is precious to them.
@Richard canning, completely agree with you
@@alexd7029are you suggesting that their life and their loved ones aren't important to them?
@@aethellstan :- No, but if a personal choice , the family are expected to go along with it. Sad indeed.
@@alexd7029 obviously they have to go along with it. if i decided to do this i would expect them to honour and respect my wishes, not impose theirs on me.
The danger has always been that people will just euthanize relatives on spurious grounds. Patients receiving treatment for cancer usually pass away peacefully so Esther shouldn't worry about being in pain or discomfort. She will be well looked after
Well done Esther. It is true that it is traumatic watching people die a slow, agonising death. We should be able to choose when we die as it is a personal matter and we should be able tk choose when to go even when we do not have a terminal illness. We do treat animals more compassionately than humans. I am of sound mind and I would like somewhere to go to end my life painlessly when I DECIDE. Esther Rantzen you have rocked all your life - I salute you.
Please vote in her favour now , it’s very hard for most people to understand what excruciating pain feels like . Doctors usually have a pain scale from 1 to 10 . Sorry guys real pain can go from 1 to 100 , and most of you have never felt that . I periodically have the excruciating pain from Bornholm Disease , and know what real pain is . If I knew this pain would never leave me , I would gladly do away with myself some how. No one on this earth deserves to live with excruciating pain , or a debilitating condition , 🙏🏻❤️to Esther.
Didn't she support Jimmy Savile!!!
Why oh why did he bring up the way her Dad passed. Talk about triggering. PTSD. I hope she knew that question was coming up.
She should be free to choose how to go, just like how we should have been free to have the vaccine - I wonder if this has changed her views on that?
Rebecca Wilcox tells us her mother always said she would live forever - it may easily turn out that the marvellous work Esther is doing raising this important issue in the public eye will be a lasting legacy. It is totally illogical that one can be charged if keeping animal in a state of undue suffering and, equally, one can also be charged with helping a human to avoid what they consider to be unacceptable suffering at the end of life
I💯%agree with Esther as everyone has the choice on how they are treated healthwise such as taking antibiotics for infections.If you have an untreatable illness/disease and every medical treatment is not going to work then it should be your decision on how to have as painless a death as possible. Dignitas to my understanding ensure you see two separate psychiatrists and psychologists and ensure you are in your right mind to say enough is enough.The medicine they give you to stop your heart isn't even held by family/friends as they try to have the person hold the cup themselves if they are able.After watching her lovely husband Desmond Wilcox struggle through a terrible illness that eventually caused his death I can fully understand why Esther Rantzan may be thinking of heading to Dignitas in Switzerland as both for her and for the sake of her family as she wants an easier way out and also doesn't want her family to suffer her having an even more painful demise than is necessary.
Jimmy Saville pal
8.08amgood luck Esta and best wishes hope you acheive your goal love and bedt wishes Val
I have been trying to contact Esther answer for a long time I need to know a program that she was on to help me find someone
Jimmy savilles best mate
Esther & her daughter as well as the producers of this programme may be interested to know that there are indeed midwives for death - they are called Soul Midwives (or death doula’s). Esther & her family are likely to benefit from their services, they are wonderful! ✨💜
So, if a celebrity decides they should have the choice, the politicians and other celebrities come to the surface and agree, but if an ordinary person wanted it, very, very few if any say a word. I’d say unbelievable, but it’s not. It’s this country all over.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
By the way I’m for the individual having the right to decide.
Its esther choice if she wants do thAt its hard as wh we n someone cancer i watched my mum thru it not nice
We all have choice, God gave us choice and God in my view doesn't judge, he's utter compassion and unconditional love. So I would say, in exceptional cases, bearing in mind most of those judging Esther have not been in her position, she should be allowed to choose❤❤❤
Totally agree with you
Choice is always there but quietly and not to influence one’s choice.
Isn't suicide really bad in the eyes of god?
@@Starkweather133 :- Yes, it is. I think God in his wisdom and with his love and compassion will judge this differently.
He will know best.
@@alexd7029 ah yeah, hes got a track record of being kind and compassionate, right?
This is totally Dame Esther’s decision but would urge her to talk to the MacMillan organisation to discuss her end of life care and having and having a dignified death. They do amazing work🙏🙏🙏🙏
True but neither they, nor anyone else, can fix everything
Yeah she can afford to do it My husband had terminal cancer never had any strong pain relief The day he died I cleaned him up we laughed I went down stairs to put his pajamas in the washer came back up and he had gone No pain just went Would not want him to have gone somewhere like that to die
Whereas I have impathy with Her plight but if this is law it can be open to abuse. Look to Canada as a warning.
Australia (or most of it) has successfully implemented Voluntary Assisted Dying. The patient needs to have discussions with two Doctors, they must be believed to have less than 12 mths to live. It has to be the decision of the patient and not a family member.The system seems to be working fine. Many people who say they want this assistance in dying don't even end up using it. Everyone who is against VAD has the same old chestnut of an argument "Oh it will be abused". Just let people make their own decisions and if you don't want to go down that path don't!
You are allowed to make your own decisions YET for someone who is in the public eye to make the announcement that she is 'doing this for her FAMILY' will inevitably influence others. No one should make this decision just to make their family comfortable. It's a very personal decision and where do you draw the line? Cue thousands of people feeling pressurised into making the same decision just to please their families now....irrespective of how they really feel. She has the right to make this decision but not the right to make it so PUBLIC, knowing what the consequences might be. Self indulgent much?
@mitchhills :- I couldn’t agree more with your comment.
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@@charloletti :- If as you say, people are strong minded, they don’t need her to state her case for it. I am sure people are well aware of all without this.
It may well be of harm and influence to certain vulnerable people they can do without.
@@floppletopple Nonsense. Throughout history minds have been changed on certain issues when more and more people realise it is the right thing to do. The ending of trans Atlantic slavery didn’t just end overnight, it began with the concept that it was not right to do so, then people campaigned, boycotted, cajoled, persuaded etc. The concept of being allowed to die when one has been diagnosed with a terminal illness at a time before the suffering is unbearable has been talked about for generations. It is not new and people are realising it is a good thing FOR SOME PEOPLE. Some people have a faith so would not do it due to that faith but many do not follow a faith and are more than willing to do so. More and more people are agnostic in Western world so it is becoming a more popular idea. I do not put it past any government to want to get rid of what they ideologically count as “non producers” as I don’t have faith in any government to act morally (as evidenced by recent events) but that is nothing new.
Well people don't have to be such sheep's do they?? Where they COPY something just because they saw someone else do it. Do people not have minds of their own anymore??
Canadians can do this. I know oft who have done it.
Many States in Australia too.
Defending Jimmy Saville? Bye Esther
As if!
God bless her always❤❤❤
No i dont support assisted dying . It seems compasinste but it is abused. In countries which sllow it it used to be just if y were terminally ill but now its if you have mrntal orobkems ehich might be severe but which could be helped. Its gone the wsy of abirtions. Very hard to get but now nit so much. Hospices guve very good oain relieve. My sister had brain cancer. She had a peaceful death in a hospice. She wasnt in any pain.
But its not exceptional cases in the netherlands
I applaud Esther as this is a conversation needs to be discussed. Sending heartfelt love & prayers
Good riddance.. She knew about Jimmy Saville and said nothing.
It's what I think I would want I it was me.... but I worry at best it will put pressure on people to do it for there families when they don't really want to and at worst Relatives pressurizing family members to do it for there own gain. Plus the fact I don't trust the nhs as far as I can throw it not to tell yoy your dieing and it might be a good idea Just to avoid expensive treatments
Very sad to hear of UK legend Esther's health problems 😢 and impact on her and family, but I do support her reasons/decision.
I think that it is a shame one has to travel so far away to undertake end of life treatment.
She is not a legend.
I am really angry at Esther Rantzen for announcing her choice in this. Of course it's her choice to make that decision but she shouldn't make it public in this way, otherwise it may influence others. One reason they didn't want to make it legal in this country was to protect vulnerable people from feeling pressurised - by family etc....and what does she do? She goes ahead and announces that her reason for opting for Dignitas is because of her family and not wanting to put them through something painful. Doesn't the selfish woman realise that by making this public she will negatively affect others' decisions in this? She should have kept her trap shut, done what she wanted and left others to make that decision for themselves. Now, people will feel that have to take their families' wishes into consideration, which is wrong. She made inappropriate comments during covid and now THIS.
Amen. 😊
Your view seems selfish. Having a final option gives a lot of people strength to carry on, knowing they have a last option. There are safeguards to prevent people being pressured. Plus people take their own lives when pressured. Your views deny everyone else the right to how they feel
@@bereal6590:- Nonsense!
@Alex, in YOUR opinion, not mine or many others. Seen people linger and suffer and no chance to live. Stand there watch them afraid, in pain and so unhappy and tell them you would deny their choice and dignity!
@@bereal6590 :- pain control administered appropriately, abundant love and dedicated care is everything. The dying person can be inspirational and wish to be with their loved ones as long as they can. Will fight to the last to live longer and with courage and dignity to do this.
Rob Burrows. a former rugby player and his wife Lindsey who cares for him are prime examples of this. Light and love of each other shines and of family & friends. mutual respect and love.
Joining Dignitas should be private and not for public declaration.
And yes,indeed then, choices that some have no wish to make.
NO
ER is quite correct. But as with most things, it's not that simple.
When we are, eventually, given the right to go at a time and condition of our choosing, we must have the right to go BEFORE we end up in a care home - waiting for hours on end to have our backsides wiped.
Let's extend that thought, and consider what will happen to care homes then. Because NO-ONE wants them. They are TERRIBLE places.
I like genuine Richard like he’s daughter and Judy
I dont think Esther's daughter is in any way effected by this. She is so upbeat, like in the movie 4 weddings and a funeral. Well that is media la la land.
The rest of us are realistic enough to understand that we cannot legislate our way out of reality.
No choice
I pray there peace soon in Gaza and this genocide is over soon as we concern about these things there are over 30,000 dead over half of them are children.Jesus was a Palestinian I wonder how he would feel if he was born there now
He would be ashamed.
Clunk Click 😂
What a sad position your in a good life comes to this you should be helped
Didn't she keep schtum about the nonce's whilst doing childline. I think she did.
I think she set up child line in that hope people would think she was a goody two shoes, but a good few of us knew she wasn't, she knew alalong about Jimmy savel and said nothing.
Death is not sulation because of sickness I think the time will come she will leave this world and God knows when and where .before that I want to give this please tell her to say ASH HADU An Laa Ilaaha Ila LAAH wa ASH hadu ana Muhammad Rasuulalaah. Because she want return to creator she have to submit before. She will not lose anything if she do that. I advise everyone to do the same .
She didn' t spare we the viewers in life ; she perhaps may spare her family ?!😮
Ignoble and false pride😅!
But its not exceptional cases in the netherlands