A 55-year-old woman, with a scientific job in Turin, turned to an association in Switzerland for assisted suicide and died last October 12th.
The family members were not involved, except for the fact that an hour before his death, his lawyer received a text message from an anonymous number, with the last wishes: "Please go home, disconnect the utilities, give away the my clothes to charity and entrust the urn with our son's ashes to my husband."
The woman's husband received an email from the clinic, after the suicide had occurred, which ended up in the spam of the man's email inbox.
A few days later the urn with the ashes was delivered to him with a death certificate without stating a cause.
The story is told by the newspaper La Repubblica.
According to what we read in the newspaper, "already in July - reconstructs her husband, an entrepreneur who lives in Canada for work - my sister-in-law had discovered that Marta was going to a Swiss clinic where assisted suicide is practiced. We reached Marta - he adds - and we made her think. She reassured us, assuring us that we had put the idea aside."
The clinic, it is reported, is in Basel and her husband and sister had tried in vain to contact them to explain that in January 2023 her teenage son had died from a degenerative disease, so the woman was followed by a psychiatrist.
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