Maddie Cowey

Maddie was diagnosed with alveolar soft part sarcoma when she was 18 years old.

“Knowing that you have the option to choose how your death plays out can be a relief in itself.”

Maddie Cowey, 27, was diagnosed with alveolar soft part sarcoma – a rare and incurable form of cancer that attacks the soft tissues of the body – when she was 18 years old.

“I got very unlucky. I had to face the fact that this probably is going to be the thing that kills me. Facing your own mortality at 18 is not an experience that many people have.”

Maddie is campaigning for the right to die on her own terms, when the time is right for her.

“It’s something that I feel I would want to use in very last few months of my life.

With a properly safeguarded assisted dying law, not only would the pain and indignity of those with terminal illnesses be relieved, but the culture around death itself would begin to shift.

Everybody deserves choice, control and dignity through their life and death.”