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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bryony Gooch

Healthy mother said she plans to take life in Switzerland because she is heartbroken over son’s death

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will be debated for a final time in the House of Lords on Friday - (PA)

A physically healthy woman said she plans to end her life at a Swiss assisted dying clinic due to heartbreak over the death of her child four years ago.

Wendy Duffy, 56, is set to end her life on Friday after Pegasos, a clinic in Basel, reportedly approved her request. The former care worker, from the West Midlands, was almost left in a vegetative state after she had previously attempted suicide, she claimed.

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