Warning: This email contains a description of a dying person ending their own life.

 

Hi Friend,

 

I’m Gareth and I’d like to tell you about my Dad, Norman.

 

 

In 2006, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. For 10 years, his cancer was kept at bay with hormone treatment. But eventually the medicine stopped working. The cancer spread to his pancreas and lungs and he had to have his spleen removed. Towards the end, the poor man could barely move.

 

In 2021, he called me to let me know that he was about to end his own life. By the time emergency services arrived, it was too late.

 

Father’s Day should be a celebration of how wonderful Dads are. But for Dads with terminal illnesses, it can be clouded with worry about their end of life. Which is why I’m asking for your help.

This Father’s Day, will you stand up for terminally ill Dads fearing a bad death Friend? By becoming a member, you’ll be playing a crucial role in our campaign to legalise assisted dying here in the UK. It takes just 2 minutes.

Yes, I'll become a member >>

 

It’s heartbreaking to see your Dad face terminal illness and be unable to relieve his pain. My Dad told me that he would end his own life before he let cancer beat him. He said it right from the start. But he deserved better than to die in that way.

 

This suffering could have been avoided if we had a more compassionate law to allow assisted dying. I know my Dad would have chosen that and we could have been there to support him at the end. That's why I'm campaigning alongside Dignity in Dying, to allow terminally ill people real choice. Will you join me?

Friend, nobody should see their Dad suffer at the end of his life. Will you become a Dignity in Dying member today and fund the campaign to give people a choice?