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Diane Pretty, 42-year-old mother of two, from Luton, Bedfordshire, who suffers from motor neurone disease leaves the House of Lords in London, where she successfully petitioned a committee of three Law Lords for the right to appeal. * ... to the House of Lords against a High Court ruling on October 18 that the law did not allow a family member to help a loved one to die. She is challenging the refusal of the Director of Public Prosecutions, to rule out taking criminal proceedings against her husband of 25-years, Brian, if he helps her to take her own life. 9/11/01: It is morally wrong to refuse a terminally-ill woman the right to commit suicide with the help of her husband, senior health academics argued today, Friday 9th November 2001. The case of Diane Pretty, a 42-year-old mother of two from Luton, Bedfordshire, has split legal, moral and medical opinion on the sanctity of life and a person's human right to choose the manner of death. Writing in this week's British Medical Journal, Lesley Doyal, Professor in Health and Social Care, University of Bristol, and Len Doyal, Professor of Medical Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, said active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide should be legalised. Mrs Pretty, who suffers from motor neurone disease, is paralysed from the neck down, has to be fed with a tube and has no decipherable speech. 14/11/01: The House of Lords was hearing terminally-ill Diane Pretty's plea for the right to commit suicide with the help of her husband. Mrs Pretty is appealing against a High Court ruling on October 18 that the law did not allow a family member to help a loved one to die. The 42-year-old mother of two, from Luton, Bedfordshire, who suffers from motor neurone disease and is paralysed from the neck down, is expected to attend part of the two-day hearing.
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