When was debbie purdy born

As one of the most prominent right-to-die campaigners, Debbie Purdy made legal history in her battle to have the law on assisted suicide clarified.

In the multiple sclerosis MS sufferer from Bradford won a ruling to get clarification on whether her husband Omar Puente would be prosecuted if he accompanied her to Dignitas, the Swiss assisted-suicide organisation.

At the time, travelling to Switzerland to end her life was a journey she imagined undertaking. But by the summer of her decision had changed. The year-old's condition, which was diagnosed as primary progressive MS, had deteriorated significantly and she was barely able to leave her house.

Since I was diagnosed in it's only ever got worse. The choice is between extreme pain and discomfort. In December Ms Purdy entered the Marie Curie hospice in Bradford and decided to try to end her life by refusing food. The hospice, however, continued to offer it to her. A process she had hoped would be quick was to last for a year. But she said it was preferable to living with her debilitating form of MS.

However, the issue of assisted suicide - the issue she fought so long for to clarify in law - does divide opinion. Baroness Jane Campbell is a disability rights campaigner and founder of Not Dead Yet UK, a network of disabled people in the UK who oppose the legalised killing of disabled people.

Please update your billing information. The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. Please update your billing details here to continue enjoying your subscription. Your subscription will end shortly. That was and Puente - a Cuban violinist - was to stick by Debbie Purdy in every year that followed, her constant support in a long battle to force the British government to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis, wanted one thing: to know for certain that if her suffering became so bad that she chose to take her life at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, her husband would not be prosecuted for accompanying her. On Thursday the year-old won a historic judgment from the House of Lords. Afterwards, as she sat in her wheelchair smiling gleefully and telling journalists she was "ecstatic", Puente knelt by her side in a smart black shirt watching her proudly.

He smiled at Purdy who was lying on the couple's double bed, placed downstairs when the house was converted to accommodate her wheelchair. She was so exhausted from her trip to London she said she might stay there for 48 hours. By her side, lying on the laminate floor, was one of her husband's four violins. Straight ahead French windows opened on to a small yard in which Purdy was growing strawberries and blueberries. Her husband laughed and said: "She feels more in control, she feels that she has her life back, and I am happy because of that.

She is a really strong woman and my mother was a really strong woman too. Puente was born in during the Cuban revolution. His father was a doctor and his mother a nurse.

He began playing the violin at the age of eight and as a teenager moved to the capital to study at music school. Currently she uses a wheelchair for mobility and both her sight and hearing have begun to deteriorate. Wikimedia Foundation. Daniel James assisted suicide — Daniel James was a young British man who obtained assisted suicide in after being paralysed.

James was paralysed playing rugby on 12 March Due to his paralysis James required help to get to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.

This help … Wikipedia. Omar Puente — b. He studied classical music at the Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana from the age of 12 and then went on to make a career in classical music, studying at the… … Wikipedia.