Doctors told court that 50-year-old woman ‘C’ was mentally unfit after she demanded right to die because life had lost ‘sparkle’ but judge ruled she had ‘strange personality
In reports,the court judgment was billed nearly as a judicial rebuke for a life lived frivolously: a 50-year-old woman who battled in court for the right to die as her existence had lost “sparkle” and she did not wish to age and lose her looks.
The woman, identified only as C, or was avowedly “impulsive and self-centred”,said high court judge Alistair MacDonald in a ruling which detailed her four marriages, heavy drinking, or ambivalent parenting and desire to halt her life following financial downturns and health damage from a failed suicide attempt.
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Source: theguardian.com