Leicestershire Live Dec 13 21
Former Leicestershire cricket captain backs assisted dying amid cancer treatment:
His wife died earlier this year after being diagnosed with cancer
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Ray Illingworth backs assisted dying during cancer treatmentHis wife Shirley died earlier in 2021 after being diagnosed with cancer.
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- The 89-year-old Ray Illingworth is receiving treatment for oesophageal cancer and supports assisted dying.
- His wife Shirley died earlier in 2021 after cancer; Illingworth described her final year as painful.
- Assisted dying remains illegal in England and Wales; a bill was debated in the House of Lords earlier in 2021.
- Illingworth said he does not want to die yet but wants to die at home eventually.
"I don’t want to have the last 12 months that my wife had,” he added. “She had a terrible time going from hospital to hospital and in pain. I believe in assisted dying. The way my wife was, there was no pleasure in life in the last 12 months, and I don’t see the point of living like that, to be honest."— Ray Illingworth, former Leicestershire and England cricket captain, speaking in a Daily Telegraph interview about his wife's cancer and his support for assisted dying.
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