Following the news of her death, BBC director general Tim Davie paid tribute to Murray as "a broadcasting icon", while Radio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya described her as "warm, fearless and beloved by listeners".
I’ve been thinking a great deal about death in recent weeks and particularly asking what might be the manner of my own passing.
She died, just before Christmas, alone, having reached the point where she was unable to swallow. It was not the death she would have wanted. It was not the death I wanted for her.
In the nearby hospice, he had two weeks of the very best of palliative care and died peacefully in my arms, having said goodbye to his beloved grandsons. It was, through good luck, the death we both wanted for him, but palliative care is not available to everyone who needs it.
I have been talking to a range of people on whether or not the law in this country should be changed. Some who vehemently oppose any change come to the question with deeply held religious faith and oppose the idea that anyone has the right to play God.
Conversely, a leading psychiatrist who was once opposed, having witnessed a friend’s agonising final months, has now changed his opinion. A doctor in California, where the law is similar to the one proposed in the Meacher Bill, told me of her own experience of helping people to die and explained that in a number of cases she has prescribed the lethal drugs, but the patient has not taken them. The important thing, she says, is the availability of choice.
I want that choice. I want to know I shan’t have to die in the lonely way my mother did. It’s my life and I want to know that, if it becomes unbearable, I will be able to choose to end it. None of us wants to think about death, but we should. The law needs to change.
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