Woman having assisted death calls for UK law change: ‘The closer it gets, the more peaceful I feel’

Tracy Hickman, a British woman who has terminal cancer, will have an assisted death in New Zealand next week

A British woman who will have an assisted death next week in New Zealand where she lives has called on the UK to change its law to give seriously ill people choices about the end of their life.

Tracy Hickman, 57, who has terminal cancer, said her message to UK politicians was: “Look at what New Zealand has done, and do it even better. There is a lot of focus on the right to life, but people should have the right to a peaceful, gentle death.”