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Dame Prue Leith would choose to die by euthanasia if she was unwell or in severe pain after watching her older brother David die in agony in 2012.

The Great British Bake Off judge, 82, is a patron of the campaigning organisation Dignity in Dying despite her son, Conservative MP Danny Kruger, 48, fighting tirelessly to stop a law permitting assisted dying from ever becoming a reality.

Restaurateur and chef Dame Prue has had it written into her will that she would like to die by euthanasia while surrounded by friends and family if she is suffering, and if it is legal, after watching her brother David die and how his illness affected his wife and children.

David was diagnosed with bone cancer which left him in excruciating pain and screaming out in desperation between doses of morphine.

He was repeatedly moved from his home to hospital as battled recurring bouts of pneumonia, which was treated with antibiotics each time.

'He realised in the end that the only way he could die was just to refuse the antibiotics, which he was allowed to do,' explained Dame Prue to the Radio Times. 'But what happens is your lungs fill up with liquid, you’re not able to breathe, so that’s how he died in the end.'

Dame Prue went on to say how David's death was agony for his family: 'His daughter said that she sat one night with a pillow in her hands when he was right towards the end – when his breathing was getting very bad and he was obviously in agony – and she was just trying to summon up the courage to put the pillow over his face. And she said, "I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t kill my father."' 

The television star has filmed a Channel 4 documentary about assisted dying with her son Danny called Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip.

They flew to America and Canada to learn about how assisted-death legislation had helped

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