She said her father Dennis Eccleston was terminally ill with cancer in 2018 when he and her mother Mavis decided to end their lives. Her mother's death, she added, was to be a "sacrifice" after easing Dennis's suffering. But while he died, Mavis survived following hospital intervention and was charged with his murder before being cleared in 2019.

British lawmakers have voted to allow assisted dying, a move set to make the UK one of a small handful of countries to allow terminally ill people to end their lives.

Lawmakers in the U.K. have passed a controversial bill that would legalize assisted dying for terminally ill people deemed to be in the last months of their life.