Thank you for your heart-wrenching but heart-warming story on Esther Richards (Dark news drives need for end of life campaign, The Weekend Sun, March 29).

I think many people in this brave woman's situation would do exactly the same: hope for an enlightened change in the law but prepare for having to control your own ending in case it doesn't eventuate.

The law is way behind the people. It needs to catch up ASAP and make a peaceful, gentle death possible when the only alternative is an appalling, cruel one.

Who benefits from the latter? Not the person, not the loved ones, not the medical professionals, not the community, not broader society.

So where is the resistance to this kind, compassionate option coming from?

A David, Waikanae.