ITV News’ Paul Brand reports on how a Swiss assisted dying clinic helped a British woman die without her family knowing. Anne travelled from Wales to the Pegasos clinic near Basel to end her life in secret. She had no known terminal illness, and her family thought she was going on holiday. However, it appears Anne couldn't cope with the death of her son. The first her siblings knew was when they received goodbye letters written by her. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00These her grandchildren's toys? Yeah.
00:21I don't know whether to start grieving her or to come looking for her. I had no idea.
00:28A week later I finally got a reply saying that she had chosen to die and they had assisted her to do so.
00:42Dear Delia, so if you're reading this I am no longer here. I have thought about this long and
00:51hard and need to find my son and ask him some questions. There's nothing you could have done
01:00because this was my decision to go to Switzerland and be in peace.
01:08See you on the other side.
01:14You know I dismissed it when I first heard it that it couldn't really be true that
01:18I couldn't believe that anyone would be able to do it given the circumstances.
01:25Why do they possibly think they've got the right to do these things?
01:29And without contacting their family
01:34it just seems evil to me for them not to give us a chance to speak to her.
01:42It's devastated the family. It's absolutely destroyed us.
01:48Anyone who loses a child probably wants to die and be with them.
01:53But with the right help she could have got through it.