Woman, 55, commits assisted suicide after son's death. Woman, from Turin, committed assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic in October.
Her teen son died of a neuro-degenerative disease last March and she went into a profound depression. The unnamed woman died in Basel after previously telling her family that she wanted to go there last July, when they managed to dissuade her. She sent a text message to her lawyer using an anonymous number an hour before her death conveying her last wishes.