WILLED TO DEATH
ADELAIDE WOMAN'S END Rec. 1-30 p-m, ADELAIDE, this day. A woman who seven months ago willed herself to death.died yesterday fronl starvation. She Was a 50-year-old spinster, Whose death was investigated by the police ott behalf of the city coroner. The police were told that at the end of test year the spinster went to bed and refused pleas by her sister to get up. The police tried to persuade her to get up, but she said she "intended to stay in bed until the Lord called her." In recent weeks she became so "weak that she was unable to. eat and she' finally became semiconscious and died last night. .It was decided that an inquest was I unnecessary-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 163, 12 July 1945, Page 5
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