Cancer-stricken Esther Rantzen living from scan to scan, says daughter

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00:00How is mum?

00:01Well, it's the impossible question to answer.

00:03One, because she is quite private.

00:06And two, because as anyone knows who

00:08lives with a terminal diagnosis, you live from scan to scan.

00:12She's on this miracle drug, which seems to be working.

00:15We don't have any long-term data for how long it will work.

00:17But at the moment, it's working.

00:20And so we are, yes, we live scan to scan,

00:22but we're really enjoying what we have.

00:25And we heard there from the clip, obviously,

00:27you know, it's something that she really

00:29believes in, this whole sort of having dignity and dying,

00:33isn't it?

00:33And I know that she sort of said that, yes, she still

00:36has faith into Keir Starmer at the moment,

00:38but is obviously conscious about the time this is going to take.

00:43So we feel like we're living in an hourglass

00:45and the sand is pouring on us.

00:47And there will come a point where our heads are no longer

00:49above it.

00:50And I really want the politicians, the MPs,

00:54the people of this country to realize that we all

00:57have a choice in how we live.

00:59And I want us to have a choice in how we die.

01:01And this is not about shortening anyone's life.

01:05It's about shortening their death.