A CANCER survivor has said she wants the right to take her own life at home if the disease returns.

Sara Cutting has raised nearly £20,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support by getting sponsorship for wearing a different wacky hat each day and posting about it on social media.

She was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer in 2014 and suffers an adverse reaction to painkillers such as morphine.

The 48-year-old, from Brighton, told a national newspaper: "If the cancer comes back I want to live a life - a real life - until the day I decide to die. When I was undergoing chemotherapy I was so poorly I thought 'Is this it? Am I dying?' I don't want to spend the last days I have like that.

"I don't want to have to travel to Switzerland and put my family or friends in a position where they could be prosecuted for helping me.

"Why should people have to pay thousands and travel hundreds of miles from their home and wider family to take their own lives? The terminally ill should have a right to determine where and when they die."

Prime Minister David Cameron named Sara the UK’s 443rd Point of Light - an award recognising outstanding volunteers.

He said: “Sara has shown huge strength and selflessness in undertaking her fundraising challenge while fighting cancer herself."