Living longer was the last thing on Mrs Burns mind when she made the ad. Soon I will be in such pain that my life won't be worth living. But what came was a second chance that life. A year down the track, her hair is lighter, her eyes are brighter, her face much less pinched from the pain. All I was asking for was the right to do it should that minute never come.
Nobody takes death lightly.
I certainly don't take my own life lightly, and I think I'm intelligent enough to know when I am truly ready. When she recalls her father's slow and agonising death more than 20 years ago, she becomes upset. I don't want to go through what I saw my dad go through. I went over to England to be with him and it just took so long. He had no stomach for six months.