http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3692639/I-had-three-years-of-nothingness-of-hell.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1093325/ESTHER-RANTZEN-I-weep-devoted-mother-For-I-watched-daughter-endure-living-death-ME.html
http://www.measussex.org.uk/Latest-News/lynn-gilderdale-december.html


It's quite scary how often a case like Lynn Gilderdale's has happened. It's not as rare as you might think. Her mother Kay has been described as a saint and was devoted to her daughter. Lynn herself in spite of being so ill had been an avid campaigner for ME awareness and we cannot let all that hard work go unrewarded. Whatever the circumstances of her death, we must not forget that Lynn truly "lived" her life as much as was possible considering and we must respect everything she and her family contributed to the ME world. I hope the issue of her ME does not become obscured by the euthanasia debate. Whilst there is a strong possibility that this was not a natural death, the far more important issue is an increased understanding of this complicated debilitating disease and what we can do to improve the support services to prevent others from suffering so badly for so long. Thankfully in recent years a diagnosis is likely to come much earlier than it did for someone like Lynn and with an early diagnosis hopefully comes early treatment but we need to keep Lynn in the back of our minds and learn lessons from her experience in order to improve the lives of all ME sufferers.