Mel Moon talks about hoping to change social attitudes - and the law - in her new show, Sick Girl.

1. Tell us about your career so far. Are you happy with where you're at?

I began comedy at the end of 2007 and did quite well. Won a few competitions and placed in the rest. I was a musical comedian and still enjoy dusting off the board and making people laugh but these days I am more strict stand-up. I have been on panel shows and done lots of radio too. Then in 2010 I got poorly and almost died. Though my disease is incurable, I missed the job and find that being on stage is almost as good for me as my medication. Almost! I mean, I really wouldn't like to rely on comedy to save me.

2. Describe your show in exactly 23 words.

A show about a young mother's fight to die but when fate stepped in last minute she stopped chasing death and began chasing dreams!

3. Why are you putting yourself through this famously stressful experience?

The right to die is such an important issue. I believe using comedy to make it palatable for people could mean that far from an ego inflating hour on stage every day, this show might actually do some good! Of course I'm still looking forward to the ego inflation. It's been a long time!

4. Any cunning plans to get more punters in?

Yes! If I can pull it off I will be parodying a funeral procession down the Royal Mile a few times a week. Shhh.

5. How much money do you think you'll lose/make this year?

I've been so lucky in that due to my health and being let down my friends and family, as well as some amazing strangers, have clubbed together and raised £2,050 for me. This should cover most things and then hopefully contributions to the show will cover the rest. For me money isn't my incentive. This could be the last chance I have to do this and that's what's driving me now!

6. What's your weirdest past Fringe experience?

Someone sticking a peg to my shirt with their show written on it. But as I shook my shirt to wash it, it pinged off and gashed my head open. Did I go and see the show? Did I flip!

This year I'm looking forward to EVERYTHING! The exhaustion, the stress, the highs, the socialising, the life up there. For one month I intend to forget myself and have a really good time living!

7. What other shows are you hoping to see?

Aidan Goatly - 10 Films with my Dad
Wil Hodgson - Paranoid
Late and Live and Confessions of a staff room!

8. If you took over programming a venue, what would you perfect line-up of comedians be?

Spike Milligan, Michael McIntyre, Victoria Wood, Lee Evans, Peter Kay, Les Dawson, Alan Partridge, Paul and Pauline Calf and Tony Ferrino. Oh I could do this all day!

9. Name the one person you'd rather not bump into during the festival.

There's one person I think it would be best I didn't bump into but BRING IT ON, I say!

10. Why should audiences pick your show over the 1,700+ other comedy offerings at this year's festival?

I have spent 3 years writing this and I promise you won't just see a show, you'll get an experience and you'll be thinking about it for days afterwards. Oh, and you get to pop a party popper as well and who doesn't love doing that??

'Mel Moon - Sick Girl' is at 12:05pm at The Counting House on 8-30 August. Listing