Widow tells of husband's final weeks with cancer
Widow Suzie McAllister told The Sunday Show her late husband's final weeks as he was dying with cancer were traumatic.
Suzie's husband, Colin, was diagnosed with stomach cancer and given six months to live.
She said he would sometimes wake screaming with pain and had even asked her to source poison from the internet, but she felt unable to do so.
She said assisted dying could have taken away those last few weeks of pain and distress.
Following her husband's death, Suzie is supporting a new bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland for terminally-ill people.
The bill would permit medical assistance for people wishing to end their lives.
Liam McArthur MSP is behind this latest attempt to change the law in Scotland. His bill, to be published on Thursday, would permit medical assistance for people wishing to end their lives.
The LibDem MSP told BBC Scotland' The Sunday Show: "We know the public has shown support for a change in the law for probably the last couple of decades but there has been a reluctance from MSPs across the parties to take that step.
"I detect a real shift in the political mood, driven in a large part by witnessing countries and states across the world introducing heavily safeguarded provisions of the kind I'm looking to introduce here in Scotland.".
MSPs will be given a free vote on the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) legislation.
