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Esther Rantzen says she is ‘too fragile’ to travel to Dignitas to end her life

The Independent Politics · 10 September 2026 at 19:04

Esther Rantzen says she is ‘too fragile’ to travel to Dignitas to end her life

The prominent campaigner for the legalisation of assisted dying insisted the law must ‘change quickly’

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Esther Rantzen says she is ‘too fragile’ to travel to Dignitas to end her life

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