A British woman who accompanied her seriously ill mother to Switzerland for an assisted suicide died herself as a result of medical negligence,a court has ruled. The Federal Supreme Court upheld an earlier verdict of involuntary manslaughter against the doctor who treated the daughter at a Dignitas location. The tragedy took place in October 2016 at a Zurich-area apartment provided by Dignitas. It was here that the mother ended her life with the aid of the assisted suicide organisation. However, her daughter fell ill at the apartment, and vomiting for half an hour before a Dignitas staff member called for a doctor. A sedative was administered,but some hours later the woman experienced breathing difficulties before collapsing into a coma. She was rushed to hospital where she died. A autopsy examination found that the woman had suffered a brain haemorrhage – a result of malformed blood vessels that could absorb resulted in bleeding at any time. The public prosecutor’s office found ...
Source: swissinfo.ch