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Assisted suicide: 'Tragedy my son could not die at home'

Article posted on Saturday 07 January 2012 by DWDnsw

The mother of a man who travelled to Switzerland to end his life said it was a "tragedy" he had been unable to choose to die at home.

Yvonne Colgan's 42-year-old son Andrew decided to end his life after nine years of living with multiple sclerosis, an incurable, progressive neurological condition.

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