Casualty star and TV legend fights tears as she opens up over sister's 'painful' death

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TV star Susan Hampshire made an emotional plea for a change in assisted dying laws on Thursday's Good Morning Britain, 11 January, as she opened up on her sister's "desperately painful" death.

Susan, 86, is known for her long TV career which has included The Forsyte Saga, Vanity Fair, Monarch of the Glen and The Grand, as well as more recent appearances in Casualty and Midsomer Murders.

Joining Nadine Dorries in the ITV news show's studio, they discussed their opposing views on assisted dying as Nadine, who lost her husband Paul to bowel cancer, said she did not agree with changing the law to allow it while Susan made the case for patients getting a choice in their own death.

Susan told hosts Ben Shephard and Ranvir Singh: "My parents, my auntie, my mother-in-law all had the most appalling deaths.Then Eddie (Kulukundis, her late husband) was different, I looked after him for 14 years. "But when it came to my two sisters, they were very vocal about what they wanted and one sister I discussed it with for a long time, and she kept saying 'if only there was a pill, if only there was a pill'. "At the end she actually stopped eating or taking any water and she actually died because she came out of hospital and she knew she wasn't going to get better." Susan appeared to be holding back tears as she recalled her second sister's death, saying: "The next sister, she was actually worse because she was in desperate pain.