{"id":54992,"date":"2026-04-24T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/54992\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:15:10","slug":"mothers-decision-to-end-life-british-mother-chooses-assisted-suicide-after-sons-tragic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/54992\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’S Decision To End Life: British mother chooses assisted suicide after son’s tragic death |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"British TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to suicide.A grieving British woman is heading to a Swiss assisted suicide clinic to end her own life after the death of her only son.Wendy Duffy, 56, a former care worker from the West Midlands in England, is physically healthy but is now travelling to Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal, according to The Times.\u201cI want to die, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do. My life; my choice,\u201d Duffy told the Daily Mail. She decided to end her life via \u2018assisted dying\u2019 after her only son passed away four years ago.Duffy applied to Pegasos, a clinic that specialises in \u2018voluntary assisted dying (VAD)\u2019, and her application was accepted. She has paid the $13,400 fee and has written letters to her loved ones. The woman is in Switzerland, with plans to undergo the VAD procedure on Friday, 24 April.Duffy lost her only child, Marcus, in 2022. He was 23. According to the mum, Marcus had been hungover and had fallen asleep on the sofa while eating a sandwich. \u201cI\u2019d been making myself one, cheese and onion, and he said he\u2019d have one. \u2018Throw a couple of those cherry tomatoes on mine,\u2019 he said,\u201d Duffy recalled. She left the room, and when she returned, Marcus was \u2018purple\u2019. Though Duffy performed CPR on her son, it did not work. They found that half a cherry tomato had been lodged in his windpipe, cutting off oxygen to his brain.The death of her only child was hard on her. \u201cI used to feel things. I\u2019d go to funerals after Marcus died, and I\u2019d feel nothing. It\u2019s why I had to give up work. You can\u2019t be a carer if you don\u2019t care, and I\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t care about anything any more. I exist. I don\u2019t live,\u201d she told People. Duffy split from her husband when Marcus was four. She had earlier attempted to end her own life, which left her on a ventilator in a \u2018vegetative state\u2019. According to the woman, suicide is the only way her \u2018spirit can be free\u2019.Speaking to the Daily Mail, the woman revealed that she has been in therapy since the death of her son. She believes VAD is the only way she can spare others the trauma of witnessing the results of her decision.\u201cI could step off a motorway bridge or a tower block, but that would leave anyone finding me dealing with that for the rest of their lives. I don\u2019t want to put anyone through that,\u201d she told the publication.The woman has four sisters and two brothers, who are all aware of her decision. \u201cMy ashes will be sent back to my family, and I want them scattered at his bench in the park, with his. It\u2019s all planned,\u201d she said.She added: \u201cI will call them when I get to Switzerland. It will be a hard call where I\u2019ll say goodbye and thank them. But they will understand. They know.\u201dThe woman says she has made up her mind to end her life with dignity. \u201cI don\u2019t want to wait for the struggle. I want to go while I\u2019m still me.\u201dDISCLAIMER: f you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, anxiety, depression, or mental illness, please seek professional help immediately from a doctor, mental health expert, or NGO. Helplines are also available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains references to suicide.A grieving British woman is heading to a Swiss assisted suicide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30384,888,4262,41,17,30607,30373],"class_list":{"0":"post-54992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-assisted-suicide","9":"tag-grief-and-loss","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-swiss","12":"tag-switzerland","13":"tag-voluntary-assisted-dying","14":"tag-wendy-duffy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116459636465863240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}