Dame Prue Leith praises ‘wonderful’ story of couple that died holding hands after drinking lethal concoction-Aisha Nozari-Entertainment – Metro

Dame Prue Leith was speaking on her Channel 4 show Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip

Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip continued on Thursday. The show sees Dame Prue Leith and her Tory MP son Danny Kruger travel around North America in a bid to better understand assisted dying – a subject they don’t see eye to eye on.

At one point during Thursday’s programme, Dame Prue – who supports assistant dying – and Danny meet a woman whose elderly parents sought out medical assistance in dying (MAID) after they both received a terminal diagnosis.

After hearing a detailed story about the night the woman’s parents died, 82-year-old Dame Prue said: ‘That’s a wonderful story.’

The woman had explained: ‘When it was time – they had set ten o’clock to drink their medicine – we just sat in silence and love and just held this space for them as they drifted to sleep.’

She added: ‘My mum passed in 15 minutes and my dad passed about 45 minutes later.’

Dame Prue then asked: ‘But they both went to sleep in a few minutes?’ to which the daughter of the deceased couple replied: ‘In a few minutes. And died holding hands.’

Dame Prue supports assisted dying (Picture: Channel 4)

Dame Prue and Danny met a woman whose elderly parents sought out medical assistance in dying (MAID) (Picture: Channel 4)

Of her parents, the woman said: ‘They were inseparable for 70 years’ (Picture: Channel 4)

She also shared: ‘They were inseparable for 70 years. They both were diagnosed with six months or fewer to live.

‘My father had Parkinson’s and my mum had cancer. My mum told their physician they both wanted to use death with dignity, which fortunately was available.

‘Six days before they died, we brought our families together for a celebration of my parents’ life. We just spent hours talking, telling stories, and it was a real gift.’

Many people tuning into the show expressed how important an issue they thought it was.

Earlier this month, Dame Prue revealed why she’s so fiercely championing for assisted dying and even said she would ‘find an illegal way’ for it if she were to be suffering at the time of her death.

Dame Prue previously revealed that her late husband Rayne Kruger asked doctors if he could have ‘a bit of assistance’ with dying and she has previously called on the government to consider the matter.

She said Rayne, who she was married to for almost 30 years before the author’s death from emphysema in 2002, had wanted to go peacefully.

In a new interview, Dame Prue – who has an opposing view to her son – said: ‘I’ve had a fantastically happy, wonderful life and I wouldn’t want to spend the last three months in agony. I’d want to go out nice and quietly, when I want to, with my family.’

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Talking about her brother David’s death, Dame Prue continued to Radio Times: ‘He realised in the end that the only way he could die was just to refuse the antibiotics, which he was allowed to do. But what happens is your lungs fill up with liquid, you’re not able to breathe, so that’s how he died in the end.

‘It was such agony for [the family]. His daughter said that she sat one night with a pillow in her hands when he was right towards the end – when his breathing was getting very bad and he was obviously in agony – and she was just trying to summon up the courage to put the pillow over his face. And she said, “I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t kill my father”.’

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