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Mum admits ending life of terminally ill son [View all]
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn33z53pv3voMum admits ending life of terminally ill son
5 hours ago
By Sophie Law, Charlotte Andrews & Marcus White, BBC News
A mother has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old son a large dose of morphine to stop his suffering and "quietly end his life".
Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her son Hamish had stage 4 cancer and was in “a lot of pain” before his death in 1981.
Now facing a terminal diagnosis herself, she made the admission to BBC Radio Oxford as part of an effort to change the law on assisted dying.
Assisted suicide - intentionally helping another person to end their life - and euthanasia - deliberately ending a person's life - are illegal in England.
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5 hours ago
By Sophie Law, Charlotte Andrews & Marcus White, BBC News
A mother has admitted giving her terminally ill seven-year-old son a large dose of morphine to stop his suffering and "quietly end his life".
Antonya Cooper, from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, said her son Hamish had stage 4 cancer and was in “a lot of pain” before his death in 1981.
Now facing a terminal diagnosis herself, she made the admission to BBC Radio Oxford as part of an effort to change the law on assisted dying.
Assisted suicide - intentionally helping another person to end their life - and euthanasia - deliberately ending a person's life - are illegal in England.
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