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Terminally ill broadcaster Esther Rantzen planned in advance to go to Switzerland for assistance in dying - later on. But now that her illness has advanced to the point where she wants to do this, she is considered "too physically fragile" to travel there. *Rantzen said: "Unfortunately, when I was strong enough to make the flight and go to Dignitas, my life was not
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