‘I watched tumours breaking through mum’s neck as she begged me to let her die’
“All we know how to do is keep people alive in this country, we don’t know how to let them die.”
This is the traumatised verdict of a daughter forced to watch her mum suffer a horrifying, “inhumane” death. Laura Perkins will forever be haunted by the memory of her mum, with tumours breaking through her neck, begging to die.
Laura, 45, is speaking to The Mirror because she says “it is important for people to hear” about the hell her mum and family experienced. She is urging the MPs to vote and stop this happening to any other families.
“I witnessed my gran die at the grand old age of 94 years old, a very peaceful death, very quick in hospital with most of her family around her,” she said. “I honestly thought that’s how everyone dies and when my mum got sicker and sicker I remember my friends saying to me ‘don’t worry she will be asleep most of the time’.
“That never happened, it was just exhausting, she fell out of bed the day before she died and the ambulance was called and they didn’t want to take her to hospital, afraid she would die. And I thought, Oh my God, all we know how to do is keep people alive in this country, we don’ t know how to let them die. Sometimes that is the best thing for them.
“There are desperately vulnerable people who are dying in really inhumane, cruel circumstances. Modern-day medicine can only take you so far and in my mum’s case it wasn’t far enough. The fact that people in Britain today are dying like my mum did just blows my mind.”
