Woman who ended life at Dignitas leaves video urging for change in UK assisted dying law

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.”