A former doctor who has led the fight for assisted suicide is now planning his own end, even though he has no terminal illness <\/p>\n
He spent his life campaigning for the right to die. Now it is his turn. <\/p>\n
Michael Irwin, a retired GP who has accompanied several people to suicide clinics in Switzerland, is planning his own death although he has no serious illness. <\/p>\n
Irwin, a former medical director of the UN, also wants a change in the rules so that a British doctor can help him. Irwin wants the doctor to be allowed to give him so much medication to ease any pain and suffering that the drugs have the double effect of hastening his death. <\/p>\n
Irwin, who lives in Surrey with his partner, Angela Farmer, said: At 86 I am living on borrowed time as so many men, born like myself in the UK in 1931, <\/p>\n
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