London:
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has pledged her support to a campaign calling for thelegalisation of assisted suicide or euthanasia.
The 54-year-old actress, who has become a patron of Dignity in Dying, a group lobbying for reform in the UK's Suicide Act 1961, is backing a change in the law to legalise euthanasia in the UK, reported Daily Telegraph.
"A law to allow assisted dying would protect dying people from the awful situations they currently face if they want some control over their death," she said.
Currently in the UK, a person faces up to 14 years in jail if they are convicted of helping in a suicide. Cattrall has earlier played the role of a paralysed sculptor who wished to end her life in the 2005 West End production Whose Life Is It Anyway?.
The 54-year-old actress, who has become a patron of Dignity in Dying, a group lobbying for reform in the UK's Suicide Act 1961, is backing a change in the law to legalise euthanasia in the UK, reported Daily Telegraph.
"A law to allow assisted dying would protect dying people from the awful situations they currently face if they want some control over their death," she said.
Currently in the UK, a person faces up to 14 years in jail if they are convicted of helping in a suicide. Cattrall has earlier played the role of a paralysed sculptor who wished to end her life in the 2005 West End production Whose Life Is It Anyway?.
