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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bevan Hurley

Brother of assisted suicide sisters hits out at Swiss clinic that let them take ‘the easy way out’

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A New Yorker who was blindsided by the suicides of his two sisters in an $11,000 assisted-dying clinic says he is angered that Swiss law allowed them to take “the easy way out”.

Palliative care doctor Lila Ammouri, 54 and nurse Susan Frazier, 49, became “tired of life” after suffering from chronic insomnia, vertigo and back pain and chose to end their lives at the Pegasos Association in Basel on 11 February.

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