Healthy mum's heartbreaking final acts before ending her life at Swiss clinic

Healthy mum's heartbreaking final acts before ending her life at Swiss clinicWendy Duffy, 56, has flown to Switzerland to end her life as she is unable to get over her son's traumatic deathCommentsNewsLucy Thornton News Reporter10:11, 23 Apr 2026View 3 ImagesA British woman has flown to Switzerland to end her life (Image: Pegasos)A healthy mum is to end her life at a controversial Swiss clinic today, unable to live with the grief of losing her son.‌Wendy Duffy, 56, has been approved for assisted dying at the Pegasos clinic unable to live with her heartbreak at the loss of her only child Marcus, 23, four years ago. She had tried to save him after he died after choking on a sandwich.‌Her plan to end her life has been a year in the making, paying £10,000, writing letters to her loved ones, choosing a deathbed outfit and picking the music which is the last thing she will hear - she has chosen Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars ‘Die with a Smile’.‌Marcus died four years ago and no amount of therapy has helped his mum, who says her life is "agony" without her child. She told the Daily Mail: I don't care about anything any more. I exist. I don't live. When Marcus died, I died too, inside. On my deathbed I'll wear his T-shirt, which still smells of him.”“I won't change my mind,” she says. “It will be hard for everyone. But I want to die, and that's what I'm going to do. And I'll have a smile on my face when I do, so please be happy for me. My life; my choice.'View 3 ImagesWendy says she will wear her son's t-shirt on her deathbed because it smells of him(Image: Pegasos)‌READ MORE: Brit mum with no terminal illness pays £10k to end her life at Swiss clinicREAD MORE: Terminally ill women 'robbed' of peaceful end as some consider starvation in fight for assisted dyingThe former care worker from the West Midlands, bought a one way plane ticket today as she has no plans to return from Pegasos, an assisted dying cli...