I’ve got cancer but I’m ready for love again

LINDA NOLAN ON APPROACHING 60,

doctors. It provides assisted suicide to people with terminal illness, or severe mental or physical illness – so long as they are of sound mind.

More than half of us have said they would consider such a step. And Linda now believes the law should be changed.

She says: “When I see people with motor neurone disease and someone says, ‘I don’t want to go through that’, I completely understand.

“There was a man with it who was trying to get the law changed so he could have an assisted death. I really felt for him.

“If you’re going to do that, you’d want to be with people you love and not risk them being prosecuted. You should have a choice.”

One result of Linda’s radiotherapy has been arthritis, causing severe pain. She says: “It’s in all my joints – my shoulders, my elbows, my wrists, my knees, my feet. When I stand up I have to steady myself, it’s really