Bert's wife Barbara took her own life in 2009 after a long battle with illness
A Belfast man is campaigning for a change to the assisted dying laws here after the trauma he suffered as his terminally ill wife took her own life here in 2009.
Bert spoke to Belfast Live in a week where Humanists UK launched its campaign to have Stormont politicians legislate for the introduction of assisted dying laws here. “Like a lot of people do, we really left it too late and by the time we were ready to go Barbara was too ill to travel.” He said: “The next morning I invited some friends to come and say their last goodbyes to Barbara. The police then arrived and said that this was a crime scene, and told me to leave the house.
“For a long time now I have been campaigning with a number of groups advocating for a change to the assisted dying laws here. The main thing I would say is that the person who is assisting someone’s death is still treated like a criminal or at least a suspect. This week it was revealed that three people from Northern Ireland had travelled to Dignitas in Switzerland to end their own life since 2002.
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