Debbie Purdy (4 May 1963 – 23 December 2014)[1] was a British music journalist[2] and political activist from Bradford, West Yorkshire.
[7] This would save her husband from exposure to the law but would have forced Purdy to make her decision on dying before she felt it was absolutely necessary.
On 10 December 2008 Sky TV broadcast a programme on which a man with motor neurone disease was shown committing suicide with assistance.
She denied that it is society that makes disabled people wish to kill themselves and reasserted her belief that it is right to be able to seek assistance when one is physically incapable of committing suicide oneself.
[9][10] Purdy entered the Marie Curie Hospice in Bradford in June 2013 and in December 2013 she began to intermittently refuse food.