MSP MacDonald calls for the right to die
MARGO MacDonald, the independent MSP, said yesterday she wanted the right to end her own life.
The veteran politician suffers from Parkinson's disease and told fellow MSPs that she should be allowed to bring about her own death if the condition deteriorates. Her comments came during a debate on choices for patients coming to the end of a terminal illness – including the possibility of legal support for assisting them to die.
"As you know, I have a degenerative condition," said Ms MacDonald. "And I would like to have the right to determine by how much my capacity to fulfil my social functions, my familial functions, my personal functions is going to be truncated.
"And I would like to have the ability to take that decision. I don't want to burden any doctor … friend or family member."
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