Tim didn’t deserve to die in pain. No one does
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The final six months of Tim’s life were agony. Having been fitted with a stent, which forced him to sit upright at all times, Tim could no longer eat solids or lie down. The deprivation of two necessities in life – sleep and food – was torture for Tim and traumatic for the family.
“He was waiting to die. Had Tim had the choice of an assisted death, I do not doubt that he would have ended his suffering to avoid those final harrowing six months.”
Tim’s final days were spent in unimaginable pain at home; his screams were so loud that people passing by could hear. “The image and those cries will always haunt me. He was the loveliest, sweetest man. He didn’t deserve it. No one does.”
Two years after his diagnosis, Tim died at home, a place he did not want to leave the family with “bad memories”, and sadly, one of his sons was unable to make it home in time.
Tim’s death was cruel, and his suffering was unnecessary. His wife Juliette and two sons now live with the trauma of what happened while knowing how different it could have been with a safe and compassionate assisted dying law.
Juliette is sharing her family’s story so that others won’t have to endure the same unbearable suffering.
