Dame Esther Rantzen's daughter has revealed that her mum "doesn't want to talk about dying" during a heartfelt discussion about the presenter's health. In an interview with Cally Beaton on the Namaste Motherf*****s podcast this month (September 12th), the beloved TV presenter's daughter, Rebecca Wilcox, detailed how "amazingly proud" she was of her mum. In 2023, the ChildLine founder announced that she had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and had joined Dignitas, an assisted dying organisation in Switzerland.
However, in the interview, Rebecca offered insight into her mum's health battle and explained why she "just wants to live what she is living well". Rebecca said: "I'm just, without sounding sentimental and boastful, I am always amazingly proud of her and the fact that she doesn't want to talk about dying." She continued: "She doesn't want to talk about the cancer.
She just wants to live what she is living well. What time any of us have left, we don't want to talk about. "One of the dinner party banned conversations.
..it used to be you're not allowed to talk about Brexit or health.
And so now she's having to have this conversation day in, day out, probably with the knowledge that it's not going to help her at all." The former That's Life! host has been lobbying the Government to hold a full debate and free vote on assisted dying in the UK, as current laws mean that people enabling it can receive a jail term of 14 years. It also means that if Dame Esther's three ch.