RIGHT TO SUICIDE
OCTOGENARIAN’S CLAIM [by CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Rec. November 10, 1 p.m.) . LONDON, November 9. An eighty years’ old company director, who went to Brighton, took veronal, and was taxied to Devil’s Dyke, and dropped over the cliff. He left a remarkable letter in his bank deposit safq, saying: I protest against any suggestion of temporary insanity. For years, I have been convinced of a man’s right to dispose of his life as his conscience approves. I am weary of this world. I do not know of any duty I have not performed. I want to avoid the problems besetting my few remaining years. I am acting only after long and careful consideration, and a week’s preparation. Another note beside the body said: Do not send me home. It would make a doleful house. Sorry I shall not hear the result.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 November 1931, Page 5
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