New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

EUTHANASIA What it means to us

Voting Yes

Bobbie Carroll is quick to point out that she doesn’t want to die.

“I want to live, of course I want to live,” she says. “But cancer is killing me and I want to be allowed to die under my terms. I am not fighting to be euthanised, I am fighting for the choice. Being able to choose should be a basic human right.”

Bobbie, 67, first started thinking terminally-ill people should have the right to end their lives when, in her twenties, she watched her stepfather die from throat cancer. She recalls, “It was a

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