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UK: I will kill myself, says MS woman
Auslan Cramb The Telegraph
Friday 13 Jun 2003 A woman who suffers from multiple sclerosis is planning to end her life after making a final public plea in favour of the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal use. Biz Ivol, 56, who is confined to a wheelchair, will deny three charges involving the possession, production and supply of cannabis when she appears at Orkney sheriff court next week. She was arrested at her home on the island of South Ronaldsay two years ago and is accused of supplying cannabis chocolates to other sufferers. She has campaigned vociferously for the decriminalisation of the drug which, she says, alleviates her symptoms. Mrs Ivol, who this week took delivery of a cardboard coffin made by a friend, said: "I'm going to use it as soon as the court case is over. "I'm too tired now to fight on. I feel no one is doing anything to make things better for people with MS and that I no longer have any quality of life. "I can't do my garden, I can't knit and I can't sew because my hands are dying. I can't read because my eyes are going. There's nothing worth staying for any more on this earth." The hearing will take place at a sports centre in Kirkwall which has better access for wheelchairs than the town's sheriff court. "They can't put me in jail because of my condition. They can't fine me because I haven't any money. And I'm already a prisoner, trapped inside a body that's full of pain and doesn't work any more," she added. Bobby McCutcheon, a neighbour, said: "It seems so terrible that someone's been driven to having to organise her own funeral. It's just so sad to see the coffin waiting for her in the house."
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