A note written by Dame Esther Rantzen has been released by her family following a private funeral. The note says she felt “deprived of choice” over her own death.
The family made the document public after the private service. Its release provides Rantzen’s own recorded expression of how she viewed the circumstances surrounding her death.
The note focuses on her sense that she had not been able to choose how her life would end. No further details about its contents or the funeral arrangements were provided in the supplied material.
The release comes after the private funeral and represents the latest known development concerning Rantzen’s final message and her views on choice at the end of life.
