Overview
- Wendy Duffy died Friday at the Pegasos clinic in Basel, which said the procedure followed her wishes and was carried out without complications.
- Duffy was physically healthy but said she could not live with the grief of losing her only son, Marcus, who choked to death four years ago, and she had previously attempted suicide.
- She secured Pegasos approval and paid £10,000, and the clinic informed her four sisters and two brothers as part of its procedures.
- The organization’s family‑notification step followed earlier controversy over the death of British citizen Alistair Hamilton, who used the clinic without telling relatives.
- The death comes as a House of Lords bill to allow assisted dying only for terminally ill adults lapsed Friday after heavy obstruction, and campaigners said the proposal would not have covered cases like Duffy’s.