Gareth Ward explains why he is campaigning for a change in the law on assisted dying.

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00:00I mean it wasn't something that we exactly discussed but if the choice was open to him to be able to

00:05you know check out in a in a calm quiet way whereby he could say properly to us to his family

00:11and everything like that as opposed to sitting alone in his in his back garden and phoning me

00:16up and saying right that's it I can't take another night like last night I'm gonna shoot myself now

00:20I mean I think it's pretty obvious which one he'd choose you know no one would choose such an

00:24explosive sad horrible end to their own life if there was a you know a better alternative

00:31my dad's situation was very specific in long term turned a little this person

00:35right at the end of his life you know and he just wanted it to stop and that's who I want

00:39this to be an option for I don't want it to be an option for anybody who feels they've been

00:44a burden because the way their family's making them feel or maybe just how they feel themselves

00:48people like that should be protected