'Waving goodbye to Mum as she left for Dignitas in a taxi was pretty horrendous'

Daughter urges MPs not to put others through trauma

- By Hanna Geissler Health Editor

A GRIEVING daughter who was forced to say a final goodbye to her mum as she left in a taxi for Dignitas has urged MPs to back the assisted dying bill when it returns to the Commons this week.

Catie Fenner, 37, told how she endured her mum Alison’s “surreal and heartbreaking” final months.

Alison, 68, had been diagnosed with a fast-progressing form of motor neurone disease in June 2022 and was told she likely had one to two years to live.

Teacher Catie said: “Her symptoms were coming on very quickly. She did not want to see the disease through to the end.

“She was an academic, a musician, she loved walking and singing. All of that was going to be taken away from her. She was a very independent woman, she didn’t want to have to rely on people.”