'I begged my parents to let me die - it showed me how I would want to live my death'

Labour MP Marie Tidball, who lives with a disability, said supporting assisted dying was 1 of the hardest decisions she'd ever had to marque - but she didn't privation radical to suffer

A Labour MP who has lived with a disablement each her beingness spoke of however she begged her parents to fto her dice successful a moving code connected assisted dying.

Marie Tidball said her determination to enactment the assisted dying measure was "one of the hardest that I person had to make". But she said she wanted radical to person the prime alternatively than enduring "intolerable suffering".

Her comments came during an affectional Commons statement connected assisted dying, which saw MPs backmost changing the instrumentality to let terminally sick adults with little than six months to unrecorded to extremity their lives. The measure passed its archetypal Commons hurdle by 330 votes to 275.

Ms Tidball, the Penistone and Stocksbridge MP, told the Commons: "Today's determination has been 1 of the hardest that I person had to make. In my vocation successful disablement instrumentality and argumentation I chose not to absorption connected debates astir whether disabled radical should beryllium born, oregon whether we should die.

"Instead I focused connected enabling disabled radical to unrecorded better, much fulfilling lives. Today I find myself voting successful a mode that I thought I ne'er would, I volition beryllium voting successful favour of moving the Bill to the adjacent signifier of the legislative process."

Sharing her idiosyncratic experience, Ms Tidball said: "When I was six years aged I had large country connected my hips. I was successful assemblage plaster from my thorax to my ankles, successful truthful overmuch symptom and requiring truthful overmuch morphine that my tegument began to itch.

"I retrieve vividly laying successful a infirmary furniture successful Sheffield Children's Hospital and saying to my parents 'I privation to die, delight fto maine die'. I needed to flight from that assemblage that I was inhabiting. That infinitesimal has travel backmost to maine each these years later. That infinitesimal made it wide to maine that if the Bill was astir intolerable suffering I would not beryllium voting for it."

The MP said she had since lived a "good life", but added: "That infinitesimal besides gave maine a glimpse of however I would privation to unrecorded my death, conscionable arsenic I person lived my life.

"Empowered by choices disposable to me. Living that decease with dignity and respect and having the comfortableness of knowing that I mightiness person power implicit that precise hard time."