Why I took my wife to die at Dignitas After conductor Sir Edward Downes ended his life beside his cancer-stricken wife in the Swiss assisted-suicide clinic Dignitas, Harry de Quetteville meets a widower who faced the ultimate dilemma – to help his terminally ill partner kill herself.
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