Cliff reveals euthanasia pact over Alzheimer’s

CLIFF RICHARD has revealed that he has considered euthanasia if he develops Alzheimer’s.

The 71-year-old singer discussed the illness with one of his sisters and made a pact after they watched their late mother suffer from the disease.

He told BBC Radio both he and his sister decided to look after each other if either of them developed dementia.

“I have discussed it with my sister. I said, look if this happens to me... I’ll do the same for you if you’ll do it for me, don’t let it go on too long,” Cliff said.

“And just make sure I’m looked after because I don’t want to be a burden on anybody else.”

He said: “If it happened when I was 90, 20 years from now, they might well have allowed euthanasia or something like that.”

The singer’s mother Dorothy died in 2007 at the age of 87, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s.

Speaking of his mother’s illness, he said: “It was a gradual change to start with but then it steamrollered at the very end. In the last three or four years she came to a point where she really didn’t know who I was.”

The star became a patron of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust in 2002.