Let me die my way.

My name is Christie Arntsen.

I am 51 years-old and have incurable secondary breast cancer. It was diagnosed in November 2013 and I now have cancer in a number of sites.

I have a 5% chance of surviving the next five years.

I get up every day, knowing that the world is closing down for me.

I have spoken out on national TV and radio because I feel so strongly that I should have a say over my own death.

The thought of my family watching me suffer as I slowly die is incredibly painful.

I have researched how I might take my own life at home. But it is just not feasible.

I am so afraid my family would be held responsible for my decision.

Currently my only option is to go to Dignitas in Switzerland.

But this would mean having to end my life earlier to make sure I was well enough to plan and make the journey alone, so as not to implicate my loved ones.

The ability I have to be positive and carry on enjoying life would be so much easier to maintain if I had the knowledge that, when the time comes, I was able to seek an assisted death in this country.

It is difficult to explain in words what this would mean to me and how much peace it would give me while I am living, when I am dying and in my last days.

I am so grateful to Noel Conway and his family for bringing assisted dying back into the foreground.

I know that my life would be better if I knew I had a choice about when and where I die - it would make me want to live longer as I would know I was in control of when enough was enough.

To me it is obvious that assisted dying should be an option available to terminally ill people like me and Noel.

To have this choice is a fundamental human right.

I am speaking out because I believe that otherwise change will not happen.

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