Terminally ill British couple choose assisted suicide in Switzerland...

An elderly husband and wife have become the first terminally ill British couple to travel to Switzerland to die, their family said on Thursday.

Peter and Penelope Duff, aged 80 and 70 respectively, had both been suffering from cancer. They kept secret their plans to travel to the Dignitas clinic near Zurich, where they received help with assisted suicide.

The couple died on February 27. They had told friends and neighbours they were moving out of their home in southern England to spend their final years in a second home, according to a report in the British newspaper The Guardian. Instead they travelled to Switzerland to die. More...

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