Die Smiling is about one man's triumph. In choosing a good death. Nigel Casson is a successful businessman, running a scaffolding business - popular in the pub, the golf course, a loving husband and father. Clambering high on life. Then his words start stumbling. Tests reveal he has motor neurone disease. Nigel battles his disease with jokes and grit, until, faced with the unimaginable torture of a slow, living death - he takes control. He decides to end his life in an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland. In this rare account of a life cut short by appointment, Nigel's wife Julie reveals every detail of the enormous logistical and emotional challenge in going to DIGNITAS. After the grueling DIGNITAS process and an eight-hundred-mile road trip, they are there. And Nigel pushes the red button. As many others with degenerative diseases wish to do. This book is an important reminder of the human lives in the growing debate over assisted dying, with legislation pending in many countries. Why do people with disease choose to die earlier and what does the process involve? Die Smiling has more answers than questions.