Published>Fri, Sep 24 10 08:18 PM
London, Sept.24 (ANI): Former England cricketer and now ICC match referee Chris Broad has criticized British laws over assisted suicide which meant his wife, who killed herself over her advancing Motor Neurone Disease, had to die alone.
Michelle Broad, 60, was open to family and friends about her plan to end her life if she got sufficiently ill. However, she refused to tell her husband how she intended to do it to avoid him being implicated in any potentially criminal acts.
Speaking yesterday, a week after the inquest, Broad said it was wrong that the law had stopped him from holding her hand as she died.
The Telegraph quoted Broad, as saying: "If there is a no hope situation and they are of a sound mind and are willing to make this decision, then I think, they should be allowed to with their loved ones around them."
Under current laws, the former opening batsman, could have been implicated in his wife's death if he had witnessed it.
His son Stuart, a current England cricketer who was yesterday selected for the Ashes team, dedicated his recent personal best Test match score of 169 against Pakistan to his stepmother.
Mrs. Broad, known as "Miche", was found dead by her husband at their home in West Bridgford, Nottingham, on July 6 after taking a lethal amount of drugs.
She had been suffering from Motor Neurone Disease since May 2009.
A coroner ruled last week that she took her own life after worrying she was becoming a "burden".
Her husband, interviewed by Channel 4 News, said: "Her body was failing her. The mind was still working but the body was failing her and that was the crucial factor.
He added: "She was struggling to text and to type and that I suppose was the last section, the last piece in the jigsaw. She was struggling to walk, she was struggling to talk and eat - she was being fed through a tube."
He said: "For 18 months I think we'd both been building up to this. We knew there was not going to be a happy ending." (ANI)
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