John Humphrys: One woman’s courage – and why I believe we all have the right to die with dignity

John Humphrys: One woman’s courage – and why I believe we all have the right to die with dignity Anne Turner was about as far removed from a lovelorn teenager playing at suicide as it is possible to imagine. She was a retired GP in her mid-60s living in Bath when she developed an incurable degenerative disease called supranuclear palsy – the disease that killed comedian Dudley Moore.