Law will make me suffer a lingering death

A terminally ill father who wants to kill himself ‘when the time his right’ claims the law criminalising assisted dying may force him to suffer for the rest of his life. Phil Newby, 48, was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) in 2014 and has since lost the ability to walk or use his hands and arms. The father-of-two, from Barnsdale, Rutland, East Midlands, claims people who know they are going to die deserve the right to choose how and…