A widow who drove her husband to an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland said he died smiling after months of “absolute torment” suffering from motor neurone disease (MND).
Barbara Shooter, 67, called for the UK to decriminalise assisted dying and stop “outsourcing compassion to a foreign country”.
She said the death of her husband Adrian, the former head of Chiltern Railways, was a “compassionate act” that gave him a good end that he would have otherwise been denied.
Barbara and Adrian Shooter moments before his death in September 2022
“I think it’s a very cruel system that denies someone who is clearly at the end stage of life the right to end their suffering and to prolong it,” she told The Times.
Helping someone end their life in the UK carries a maximum prison sentence of
