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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ellie Harrison

Blur drummer calls UK assisted dying law ‘psychopathic’ after ex-wife went to Switzerland to die alone

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has launched an attack on the UK law on assisted dying, after his terminally ill ex-wife was forced to travel to Dignitas in Switzerland, where she died alone.

Rowntree, 60, was married to Paola Marra in the Nineties. Before her death aged 53, which took place in Zurich in March, Marra had been suffering from terminal bowel cancer and was being supported by Rowntree.

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