Photograph: PA Wire/PAPeter and Penny Duff, a married couple from the UK, who both suffered from terminal cancer, travelled to commit suicide together in the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.
Their deaths come at a time when doctors are being asked to allow dying patients greater say over how and when they die.
Those in favour of euthanasia prevention have criticised the Dignitas clinic, which helps around 100 from the UK end their lives each year, saying they are more interested in money than ethics.
Their deaths come at a time when doctors are being asked to allow dying patients greater say over how and when they die.
Those in favour of euthanasia prevention have criticised the Dignitas clinic, which helps around 100 from the UK end their lives each year, saying they are more interested in money than ethics.
However pro-euthanasia campaigners argue that if the law were to be changed that people would be able to find the peace and support they need to end their lives in the way they want. Sarah Wooton, chief executive of Dignity In Dying, said: "This is an extremely sad case of two more terminally ill UK citizens being forced to travel to an unfamiliar country to die"
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