'I watched my wife die such an awful death that she begged for a lethal injection'

By Hanna Geissler, Daily Express Health Editor

Warwick and his woman Ann had been joined for 37 years (Image: Warwick Jackson)

Doctors told Warwick Jackson that palliative attraction would guarantee his beloved woman Ann did not endure earlier her decease from terminal cancer.

But erstwhile the clip came, she spent 4 days gasping for enactment and remained lucid contempt being fixed the maximum permitted dose of sedatives.

Warwick, 63, said: “Pain wasn’t Ann’s issue, breathing was. And palliative attraction can’t marque you respire erstwhile you’re suffocating.

“Innocently, I thought that this benignant of decease didn’t hap successful this time and age. I’ve been with radical erstwhile they’ve died earlier but I had ne'er witnessed thing similar this.”

Four days earlier she died, 61-year-old Ann asked a nighttime caregiver to assistance extremity her beingness by administering a lethal dose of morphine.

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Ann spent her last days gasping for enactment (Image: Warwick Jackson)

Her petition was denied and, successful desperation, Warwick considered taking matters into his ain hands. He said: “I thought possibly if I was to smother her with a pillow, possibly I could decorativeness it for her.

“But it takes much courageousness than I’ve got to bash that. I didn’t bash it and consequently her suffering went connected for 4 days and nights.

“It was the astir appalling death. I person ne'er seen thing similar it.”

Warwick said Ann received superb attraction from Macmillan nurses and the NHS, truthful helium “doesn’t buy” the statement that assisted dying would not beryllium needed if this state had amended palliative care.

He added: “Ann was 1 of the unlucky ones for whom palliative attraction could not help. The aforesaid week erstwhile Ann died, a bully person of excavation had his canine enactment down due to the fact that it was suffering

"It was each implicit successful a fewer moments. We afforded a amended decease to my friend’s canine than nine has afforded to my woman Ann.”

A Private Member’s Bill seeking to legalise assisted dying lone for terminally sick radical nearing the extremity of beingness is owed to look a 2nd speechmaking connected November 29.

Warwick, who campaigns with Dignity successful Dying, said MPs indispensable retrieve erstwhile they ballot connected the Bill that they are elected to correspond the views of the people.

He added: “If Ann’s communicative causes conscionable 1 MP to deliberation again connected this issue, which radical look to beryllium getting precise entrenched successful without listening to extracurricular views, past it would person been worthy my efforts to publicise it.

“It’s excessively precocious for Ann but it does consciousness worthy to beryllium doing this for each those similar Ann who person perchance got hard times connected the horizon. And that could beryllium immoderate 1 of us.”