CANCER VICTIM
AID TO SUICIDE. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Reed. February 2G, 1 p.m.) LONDON, February 25. An earnest former suffragette, who withheld her name, stood up after an address by Lord Ponsonby, at the Voluntary Euthanasia Legislation Society, and told how she aided a dying relative to commit suicide. ‘‘One dear to me suffered agonies from cancer, and looked to me with eyes of silent reproach. I am glad to say I was able to help by putting things in his way for him to take his own life.”
She added that doctors should be permitted to do this instead of leaving it. to distressed relatives.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1937, Page 7
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