Choosing to live should not mean living with indignity in old age | Lucy Webster

Gill Pharoah’s assisted suicide is easier to understand when you know she nursed older people – we need a care system that treats people with kindness and respectThe story of Gill Pharoah, a healthy 75-year-old ex-nurse who decided to end her life at a Swiss Dignitas clinic, has made headlines this weekend. Despite an absence of disability or illness, Pharoah made the decision that getting old was not something she wanted to do. Many support her exercise of free will, others are worried that