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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Amy-Clare Martin

War hero who begged for an assisted death starved himself for 8 weeks before dying

A Second World War hero denied an assisted death passed away looking “like a skeleton” after starving himself for eight weeks.

After his third fall in short succession, former Marine Commando Harry Moore, 102, told his family: “I have had enough.”

From that day he refused to eat, begging his doctors for a “pill” to end it all.

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