‘To die with dignity should be everybody’s right’

A BRITISH woman suffering from a rare brain was assisted in suicide in Switzerland yesterday surrounded by her three children.

Retired doctor Anne Turner, from Bath, died with the help of medics from the controversial Dignitas clinic on the day before her 67th birthday.

Dr Turner was suffering from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, or PSP, the incurable degenerative disease which killed the actor Dudley Moore in 2002.

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