Personal stories – against euthanasia
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When Baroness Campbell of Surbiton was born, the doctors told her mother that she was very unlikely to live longer than a year. But, over 50 years later, Lady Campbell is a leading campaigner for the rights of people with disabilities and a member of the British House of Lords.
Lady Campbell has a degenerative condition called Type 1 Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She uses a wheelchair and has serious breathing problems, for which she needs to use a mechanical ventilator, in order to breathe through the night. Yet, she continues to be strongly opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide. She says: ‘Legalising premature death as a treatment option plants a seed of doubt about one’s right to demand help to live with dignity and undermines the state’s responsibility to ensure that all citizens can live with dignity.’
Matt Hampson is a former England under-21 rugby player, whose career was brought to the most abrupt end imaginable in a training accident in March 2005. His neck was dislocated a...
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