Deborah Binner's husband Simon was 57 when he decided to travel to a clinic in Switzerland to end his suffering after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).
The couple travelled to the Eternal Spirit clinic in Basel after Simon's terminal diagnosis, which came less than three years after Deborah's 18-year-old daughter Chloë died of cancer.
But although Deborah went with him, she now says that she has had a change of heart about euthanasia after her terrible heartbreak.
She wrote in MailOnline: "Personally, I am absolutely fuming that my husband left me to fend in this world alone."
The ex-Sky News presenter also said that people had put her view down to a Catholic upbringing.
But she insists: "[It’s] about the value we put on life. On love. On bidding farewell to the world and to family."
And Deborah also feels as though she had no choice but to go along with her husband's decision.
She said: "[His] death felt very much like abandonment and like it wasn't a collaborative act."
Deborah had initially told her husband that she wouldn't go with him to Switzerland, but she changed her mind after Simon attempted suicide twice at their home.
The couple holding hands in Basel, Switzerland shortly before Simon passed awayIn one of the attempts, he tried to hang himself from the children's swing in the garden.
A BBC film crew documented Simon's journey to Switzerland and suicide in a 2016 documentary called How to Die: Simon's Choice.
Simon made the decision after being diagnosed with progressive bulbar palsy – the fast-moving kind of MND.
He was told by doctors that he would only have between six months and three years to live after his condition was discovered.
Deborah is publishing her story in a book called Yet Here I Am: One Woman's Story of Life After Loss on 12 November.
Assisted dying remains illegal in the UK, with MPs rejecting a change in the law on the subject as recently as 2015 in the form of the Assisted Dying Bill.
Source: Read Full Article