JUST days before her death, right-to-die campaigner Debbie Purdy said legal guidelines on assisted dying she fought for and won did not go far enough to prevent people “dying badly”.

Miss Purdy, 51 (pictured), of Undercliffe, Bradford, who won a House of Lords ruling which resulted in new government guidelines on assisted suicide in 2009, died on December 23 after battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis for nearly 20 years.

In an article published in a national Sunday newspaper, written shortly before she died, Miss Purdy said Lord Falconer’s Assisted Dying Bill was “not good enough as it is” although she hoped it would pass into law.

She wrote: “I just hope others succeed where I have ultimately failed, and that Britain will see an appropriate assisted dying law soon, so that no one else has to work as hard as I have to have some choice and control over the way I die.”

Revealing her struggle, she said: “Three times I became semi-concious and ran temperatures. Omar and the doctors thought I was going to die, but my body kept going against my will. This final hurdle added to my conviction that we need to change the law.”