The writer, who suffers from a degenerative disease, says experiencing first-hand the horrors of a failed palliative care system made her realise other options are needed
Molly Meacher last week told the Commons health and social care committee inquiry into assisted dying about the decay, vomit and pain that often constitutes the daily existence of the terminally ill.
The Guardian’s social affairs correspondent called her submission “shocking”. If Lady Meacher’s description really made him or anyone else on the committee feel this way, I have one piece of advice: go and spend a day in an NHS hospice.
