47 hours before I die

Assisted dying woman’s final hours on film

- anna Geissler

A TERMINALLY ill woman’s final hours before she chose to have an assisted death have been captured in a powerful documentary.

Jessica Lantz lived with a rare auto-immune disease for a decade and was receiving palliative care before she took life-ending medication on February 12, aged 43.

Her last 47 hours were documented by an ITV film crew before she bid them goodbye with the words: “Good luck to everyone in the UK.”

Asked why she set a date for her death, Jessica explained: “You can feel yourself dying, not just the pain or the things you associate with being sick, but you can feel your body dying.

Wasting