ASSISTED AT SUICIDE
Relative Who Helped Sufferer From Cancer EUTHANASIA PLEA (Received 26, 12.15 p.m-) LONDON, Feb. 25. An earnest former suffragette who withheld her name stood up after an address by Lord Ponsonby at the Voiuntary Euthanasia Legislation Society and itold 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," she said. "I am glad to say that 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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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 36, 26 February 1937, Page 5
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