'I know I will die...the only thing of concern is how'

Terminally ill gran's plea to vote MPs

- By Hanna Geissler Health Editor

A TERMINALLY ill breast cancer patient has issued a heartbreaking plea to MPs ahead of Friday's vote on assisted dying, saying: "All I'm asking for is to be given the choice.

Tracey Iles, 61, was diagnosed with aggressive stage four cancer in April 2022 after noticing a small lump.

Covid restrictions meant she was alone with a doctor and nurse when she received the “absolutely devastating” news that her disease was incurable and had already spread to her liver.

Tracey said: “I was so shocked. It took six months to a year for me to really get it all on board and realise that the future, my future, was going to be very different to what I had thought it would be.

“I probably know what I’m going to die from. The only thing that is of major concern to me is how I’m going to die and if I’m going to suffer.