Esther Rantzen shares heartbreaking health update after medication ‘stops working’
Broadcaster reveals she doesn’t have ‘much longer’ to live
- Dame Esther Rantzen, 85, has revealed that a drug treating her stage four lung cancer has stopped working, indicating she does not have "much longer" to live.
- The broadcaster and Childline founder used the health update to reiterate her passionate plea for the assisted dying bill to become law.
- Dame Esther said that she will not live long enough to see the bill pass and may have to travel to Dignitas in Switzerland for a pain-free death.
- The assisted dying bill, which passed the House of Commons in June 2025, is currently facing significant delays in the House of Lords due to over 1,000 tabled amendments.
- Supporters of the bill accuse opponents in the House of Lords of intentionally delaying the legislation to prevent its passage before the current parliamentary session concludes this spring.
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