Paola Marra says assisted dying is about reclaiming control and calls current UK law ‘unfair and cruel’ in the posthumous clip

Paola Marra, the 53-year-old from London who took her own life at Dignitas in Switzerland on Wednesday, has urged the public and politicians to help change the law on assisted dying in a posthumous video.

In a clip filmed before she flew to Zurich this week after suffering terminal bowel cancer since 2021, Marra said: “As you watch this, I am dead. But you watching this could help change the laws around assisted dying.”

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