Mum admits ending life of terminally ill son

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn33z53pv3vo

Mum admits ending life of terminally ill son

5 hours ago
By Sophie Law, Charlotte Andrews & Marcus White, BBC News

A mother has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old son a large dose of morphine to stop his suffering and "quietly end his life".

Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her son Hamish had stage 4 cancer and was in “a lot of pain” before his death in 1981.

Now facing a terminal diagnosis herself, she made the admission to BBC Radio Oxford as part of an effort to change the law on assisted dying.

Assisted suicide - intentionally helping another person to end their life - and euthanasia - deliberately ending a person's life - are illegal in England.

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[Voltaire2]

1. We give our pets this gift of love.

But we deny it to our human companions.

[marble falls]

2. What an unimaginable horror for her to be in. I don't know how I could have pulled through with my children ...

... in the that situation. I hope she gets the right resolution when the time comes. I know it was one of my concerns when I was fighting my cancers. No palliative measure should be off the table if it comes to it, fortunately I've outlived my cancer journey. Twelve years of it, including this five years cancer clear, the last surgery June of 2019.