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...after police interview wife over his plan to die at Dignitas
‘The law in this country robbed me of control over my death,’ Geoffrey Whaley tells MPs in letter published as he ends life in Swiss clinic
By Chris Baynes
A terminally ill man whose wife was interviewed by police over his planned death at a Swiss clinic has called for urgent changes to the UK’s assisted dying laws.
In an open letter to MPs published minutes before he ended his life at Dignitas, accountant Geoffrey Whaley said his final months had been ‘blighted’ by visits from social services and a criminal investigation.
The 80-year-old, from Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire, arranged to die at a clinic near Zurich after he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2016.
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