Rebecca had previously explained how Esther would have no choice but to travel to Dignitas alone, if she wanted to die.
“I mean, we’re in this odd, privileged position, if that’s the word, whereby she can afford to have the death that she wants and deserves. She will pay £15,000 to go to Dignitas. She will go before she has to. She will go months before she would die here. And she will go alone, because we contacted a criminal solicitor. And we said, how likely is it that we’ll be investigated and prosecuted?” her daughter Rebecca explained previously.
“And they said, because we have stuck our head above the parapet, because we have campaigned for other people for this, we knew it would never come in time for mum, we will be investigated as a family.”
She added: “I will possibly lose my enhanced DBS, which means my work with Childline, which is so important to me, and my counselling work will not go forward. I will possibly lose my job as a journalist.
“My brother’s job as a cardiologist might be in danger, and my sister’s job as well. And my mum doesn’t want that for us, so she is not allowing us to go with her. So she goes alone to die in Switzerland, and she does not deserve that.”
