A terminally-ill woman is beginning a ground-breaking legal bid to force doctors to let her die.

Kelly Taylor, 30, has been given less than a year to live, and will argue that medics are breaching human rights laws by refusing to provide treatment which will lead to her death.

She is attempting to compel doctors to vastly increase her morphine dose to sedate her into a coma-like state. The morphine alone could kill Mrs Taylor, who is frail and endures constant pain.

Physicians have refused to provide the treatment, saying it amounts to euthanasia.

"I have made the decision because enough is enough. I don't want to suffer any more. I'm not depressed - I've never been depressed. I am a happy person. But my illness is now at the point where I don't want to deal with it any more.", said Mrs Taylor.