Dame Esther Rantzen details her ideal final moments before she dies

has shared the ideal way in which her final moments would play out.

The announced in May 2023 that saying she was undergoing various tests to find the ‘best treatment’.

Dame Esther, 83, has since revealed that she hasin Switzerland. 

Now, has shared the details of her dream final meal before ascending to the ‘pearly gates’ to reunite with her late husband.

She told LBC Radio on Monday (February 19): ‘I’d like to fly off to Zurich with my nearest and dearest. Have a fantastic dinner the night before. 

‘I’d love caviar, if possible, and the fact that it doesn’t always agree with me doesn’t matter, does it? 

‘I could even have champagne, which I’m deeply allergic to. Then the next day, go to this rather unappealing place where they do it.

‘Listen to a favourite piece of music, say goodbye to everybody. Tell them to cheer up.’

She added: ”I’m meeting my late husband, my departed dog, and my mother at the pearly gates.

‘Hold up my hand for an injection or open my mouth for a rather disgusting medication.’

Dame Esther’s cancer has taken a toll on her family lately.

Last week, her daughter made a highly emotional appearance on Loose Women where she discussed how her mum received the diagnosis ‘no one wants to hear’.

Rebecca said: ‘It’s the news that no one ever wants to hear. Mum doesn’t usually break her promises and she promised to live forever so she’s quite embarrassed that she’s had to go back on that.

‘But how does anyone ever feel when a loved one is diagnosed It’s confusing, it’s bamboozling.’

While Rebecca found it ‘a little surprising’ that her mum had opted for assisted dying, but understands her decision.

She also knows how her mum feels about ‘death and dying’ due to all the work she has done around the matters.

‘I know I’m biased but she’s so bright and so brilliant that the last thing she’d want is to become something else in her last moments.’

When she joined Dignitas, Dame Esther acknowledged the ‘difficult position’ her loved ones would be in because they would ‘want to go with’ her.

‘And that means that the police might prosecute them. So we’ve got to do something. At the moment, it’s not really working, is it?’, she said.

The presenter added to BBC’s  that she’s calling as she feels it is ‘important that the law catches up with what the country wants.’

Dame Esther also previously told Loose Women: ‘I don’t know if I’ll live long enough to see this debated in parliament but if you do agree with me, please, please make your views known to your MP.

‘And for those that disagree – maybe on religious principles or maybe because they’re professionally absorbed in palliative care and believe that this goes against what they practice in medicine – can I just say, all we ask for is the choice.’

Currently, assisted suicide is banned in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.