Warning: This email contains contains a description of someone ending their own life.
Dear Friend,
On 23rd July, The Sunday Times published Evan Davis’s moving story of his father’s death.
Evan’s Dad, Quintin, had bowel cancer and his heart was failing. On Evan’s wedding day last year, his brother, Roland, called him to tell him that their father had taken his own life.
Roland had just one urgent question: “Are we telling people he took his own life or not?” Davis didn’t hesitate. “Absolutely. Dad was not ashamed of it.”
Quintin left a note, detailing that he was making this decision himself and had no influence from his family. This is because in the UK, it is illegal to assist somebody to end their own life.
We know the current law is cruel, Friend. Stories like Evan’s are the most powerful tool we have to bring about change. Share your story with us to show Westminster why we need an assisted dying law.
“I find it hard to imagine him not trembling as he does all of that. And there was no one to hold his hand. He was just so on his own.”
Quintin was found by his gardener in an armchair. Nobody should have to die alone. An assisted dying law would mean that dying people could have a peaceful death, with their loved ones around them.
Before his death, Quintin was a supporter of assisted dying. He should have had this choice for himself. Friend, will you share your story today so that everyone can have real choice at the end of life?
Evan knows that the tide is turning and that we are closer than ever to law change. We couldn’t have gotten this far without supporters like you sharing your stories.
