'All I am asking is to choose how my life ends'

From: The Scotsman | Date: January 12, 2007| Author: Alison Hardie | Copyright information

GLORIA Thomson witnessed her father and sister die in terrible pain without being able to help them.

When she found out that like her father she was a carrier of the genetic illness Huntington's disease, she vowed that she would not suffer as her family had.

Mrs Thomson, 54, said: "All I am asking is to be given the right to choose how my life ends. I have seen how much pain my father was in, gasping for breath and scared, and I don't want to end up like that. In my hospital no...

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