Watch as Millie Blenkinshop-French discusses the Assisted Dying Bill on the Isle of Man

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00:00My name is Millie Blankensop French and I'm here campaigning for assisted dying.

00:10Well you know I've been campaigning for many years. I'm now 81 and I've been campaigning

00:15since I was in my 30s and to see it nearing the completion, how could I not be here?

00:22I'd like to see it go through, yeah, obviously as quick as possible, you know,

00:30because there's a lot of people out there suffering.

00:35It all started when I was young and my brother and I were having a conversation

00:39and he said to me, you know our Mill, I'm not afraid of dying, it's how I die,

00:46and that's what started it. And then a few months later I was reading a women's magazine

00:51and there was a double-page spread all about voluntary euthanasia and their office was in

00:56Wales and I lived in the UK at that time and it said if you wanted to join and that was it,

01:03that's where it all started. I would say to them, have you ever watched a child dying of cancer

01:12like I did? Horrific and you never forget it.

01:16Isle of Man

01:18Oh my word, you know, it'll really put the Isle of Man on the map because, you know,

01:26the Isle of Man was also the first to give the women the vote,

01:30so to be able to carry through with the assisted dying, wow, Isle of Man, fantastic.