Diane Pretty, who wanted to be put to death with the help of her husband, died at a hospice near her home Saturday, according to her family. She was 43.
Mrs. Pretty was in the advanced stages of motor neuron disease. The mother of two began having breathing difficulties 10 days ago, three days after she lost her assisted-suicide court challenge in the European Court of Human Rights.
The judges dismissed Mrs. Pretty´s claim that the British courts were contravening her human rights by refusing to allow her husband to help her commit suicide.
