広大な／多数の／重要な British Bake Off's Prue Leith 問題／発行するs その上の call for new 権利 to die 法律 as she says she does not want to end her life 'in a hospital in 叫び声をあげるing agony'

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Dame Prue Leith has 問題／発行するd a その上の 決起大会／結集させるing cry for the 権利 to die, 説 she does not want her last moments to be 'in a hospital in 叫び声をあげるing agony'.

The 広大な／多数の／重要な British Bake Off presenter, 84, who is a 選挙運動者 for and patron of Dignity in Dying, said someone who is 哀れな, in 苦痛, and living with an incurable 病気 should 'have the 権利 to step out of life'.

Dame Prue, who is outspoken on the 権利 to die and made a TV programme with her son Danny Kruger, said today she is 'always an 干渉するing woman' and would not stop in her （選挙などの）運動をするing to enshrine it in 法律.

Her open letter to party leaders calling for a 審議 in 議会 before the next 総選挙 has so far received 235,969 署名s, just shy of the 250,000 needed to put the topic 今後 for discussion.??

In her open letter, she calls for a '安全な and 合法的な 選択' to end a person's 苦しむing in a 平和的な and dignified manner.?

Dame Prue Leith pictured today in London. She has 繰り返し言うd her support for the 権利 to die to be enshrined in 法律 for those with 終点 illnesses

Dame Prue is best known to many as a 裁判官 on The 広大な／多数の／重要な British Bake Off opposite Paul Hollywood (above)

Last year, Dame Prue filmed a programme 調査するing the 支配する of 補助装置d dying with her son Danny Kruger (pictured), who does not 株 her 見解（をとる）s on the 権利 to die

Dame Prue pictured in November last year at the Scottish 議会 with 自由主義の 民主党員 MSP Liam McArthur, who has introduced a 法案 to legalise 補助装置d dying in Scotland

She became an 支持する for 補助装置d dying after losing her brother David, who 苦しむd a 'really horrible' death from bone?癌; it 誘発するd her to begin 支持するing for the terminally ill to be given the choice to end their life.

Restauranter and cook school 創立者 Dame Prue told the PA news 機関: 'I am always an 干渉するing woman, so I do （選挙などの）運動をする for やめる a lot of sustainability but also really 堅固に for the 権利 to die when you want to die.

'I am not wanting to 軍隊 anybody to 受託する 安楽死 or anything grim like that.

'I just think the people who have had enough of their life because they are in intolerable 苦痛, they're dying anyway, why should a good life end with three weeks or even three days of 絶対の agony when it could be 削減（する） short.'?

Discussion around the need for a 法律 change has grown in 最近の months with moves に向かって one 進歩ing in Scotland, Jersey and the 小島 of Man.

And Dame Prue says, given the choice, she would prefer to die on her own 条件.

Dame Prue told PA: 'I want to die 平和的に in my own bed surrounded by my family. I don't want to die in a hospital in 叫び声をあげるing agony.

'率直に, it is a 広大な／多数の／重要な big secret. No one wants to talk about how many people die in real agony and also who just have 絶対 had enough of their lives.'

On the possible 推論する／理由s for wanting 補助装置d dying, she said: 'For some people, it's that they have lived a very long time, all their friends are dead, all their family is dead, they're lonely.

'Of course, we should say 井戸／弁護士席 they shouldn't be lonely but there is no good preaching about it, it doesn't make it go away by 説 we should do something about the loneliness.

'We should do more about palliative care, we should do all we can to make people's lives happy.?

'But if they are 全く 哀れな, and they're in 苦痛, and they have an incurable 病気, for goodness sake they should have the 権利 to step out of life.'

Dame Esther Rantzen, 83, who was 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 four 肺 癌 last year, is の中で those who supports a 権利 to die for those with 終点 illnesses

Rachael Stirling, the daughter of the late Dame Diana Rigg, says her mother would have supported the 権利 to die in Scotland

Last year, Dame Prue made a 文書の on 補助装置d dying with her son, the 保守的な MP for Devizes Danny Kruger.

Prue And Danny's Death Road Trip on Channel 4 saw Dame Prue and her son - who does not 株 her 見解（をとる）s on the 権利 to die - 会合，会う 親族s of terminally ill people who chose to end their lives on their own 条件.

Ahead of the 文書の 公表／放送, the Bake Off presenter told The Times how David's 苦痛 救済 was insufficient, only working for three of the four hours between each dose, 追加するing:?'He was crying out, 叫び声をあげるing, in 絶対の agony.'

David 結局 died at the age of 74 after he began 辞退するing to take 抗生物質s 定める／命ずるd to him to 扱う／治療する 肺炎.?

Dame Prue 追加するd:?'Why, if you can 妨げる it, would you 許す somebody to 主張する on somebody having six weeks of 苦痛 and 悲惨? They're going to die anyway.'

And last year, she met with?自由主義の 民主党員 MSP Liam McArthur in Scotland, where he has introduced a 法案 to legalise 補助装置d dying for the terminally ill.?

Another famous 直面する in favour of 補助装置d dying is Dame Esther Rantzen, who has called for it to be made 合法的な after 存在 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 four 肺 癌 last year.

YouGov 投票ing 示唆するs the 広大な 大多数 of the British public is in support of making 補助装置d dying 合法的な for those 苦しむing from 終点 illnesses, with around two-thirds 刻々と supporting the notion since 2019.

Dame Prue was speaking today as she 開始する，打ち上げるd the Big Lunch community 集会s this summer, which 目的（とする） to raise money for charity

Dame Prue pictured with the 現在の Bake Off line-up (clockwise from 最高の，を越す left: Alison Hammond, Noel Fielding, Dame Prue, Paul Hollywood)

This week Rachael Stirling, the daughter of Dame Diana Rigg, says her mother, who （選挙などの）運動をするd for legalising 補助装置d dying in the UK, would be 'proud' of the 提案するd changes to Scottish 法律 this week to 許す it.?

The 補助装置d Dying for Terminally Ill 患者s (Scotland) 法案, 宿泊するd at Holyrood on March 27th, want adults with an incurable illness to be able to?捜し出す a lethal dose of 麻薬s from their GP.

Before her own death from 癌 in 2020,?James 社債 actress and Game of 王位s?星／主役にする Dame Diana Rigg made an 情熱的な 嘆願 for 補助装置d dying to be legalised.

Speaking on Woman's Hour this week, an emotional Stirling said her mother would have been 'really proud' of the Scottish 法案, and her 衝撃 on 'starting a 国家の conversation'.

一方／合間, Dame Prue?has taken a step 支援する from Bake Off?and will not appear as a 裁判官 on the celebrity 版 to be 空気／公表するd this summer, with sources 特記する／引用するing her age and other かかわり合いs as 推論する／理由s for the break.