


There was an especially creepy reaction to the vote in the House of Commons on Friday to legalize assisted suicide from Dame Esther Rantzen and her family. Suffering from cancer, the retired journalist — known for the long-running BBC series That’s Life — is a vocal advocate of assisted suicide, even though it may not come in time for her to make use of it in England.
As is, she plans to “buzz off to Zurich” to the Dignitas clinic when she chooses to die.
Rantzen’s daughter, Rebecca Wilcox, a BBC personality, was on Sky News on Friday and reported mum’s “wow” in reaction to the vote. Wilcox was happy about the vote coinciding with her mother’s 85th birthday but regretted that her mother is still not free to choose assisted suicide in England.
At one point in the interview, Wilcox announced that she was “a little dappy” over the vote and had to pause occasionally because of the background noise of people drinking champagne.
Dappy about an expanding culture of death. One where children get excited about parents picking death when there is still life in them.