A Dunfermline woman features in a new campaign calling on people to help legalise assisted suicide.
Dawn Morton was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2014 and now needs 24-hour ventilation and care.
The 34-year-old wants to be able to choose assisted suicide to spare her six-year-old daughter Abigail from watching her die in pain.
She said: “I couldn’t afford to go to Switzerland and it is important to me to be around as long as possible for my daughter, but I don’t want her to see me die badly and in pain.
“I wish the choice of assisted dying was available in Scotland so I could decide when the time was right for me.”
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A Populus survey, commissioned by campaign group Dignity in Dying Scotland, found 87% backed the move for terminally ill people with less than six months to live, with medical approval and safeguards.
Just 8% of people were opposed while the remainder said they did not know.
Campaigners want the Scottish Parliament to legislate to allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults to have the choice of an assisted death.
Dignity in Dying Scotland director Ally Thomson said: “Most Scots believe that dying people should not be forced to suffer at the end of life and that there are currently too many bad deaths.
“Their views cannot be ignored. The law in Scotland needs to change.”
