How tragedy of son's death led healthy mum on journey to end life at Swiss clinic

How tragedy of son's death led healthy mum on journey to end life at Swiss clinicWendy Duffy has flown to the Swiss clinic Pegasos clinic to end her life, unable to live with the loss of her son after she desperately tried to save him with CPRCommentsNewsLucy Thornton News Reporter11:40, 23 Apr 2026View 4 ImagesA British woman has flown to this clinic to end her life, unable to live with the death of her son(Image: Pegasos)A healthy mum who has flown to Switzerland to end her life at a controversial assisted dying clinic told how she gave her son CPR after he choked on a tomato in his sandwich.‌Wendy Duffy, 56, has been approved for assisted dying at the Pegasos clinic unable to live with her heartbreak at the loss of Marcus, her only child four years ago. She says she doesn't want to be "in this world" without her son. She also tried to take her own life, and failed.‌“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," she told the Daily Mail.‌The former care worker from the West Midlands, who is medically trained, told how she desperately tried to save her son and screamed for help. She told how his birth was the ‘happiest of my life’ but his death left her heartbroken and unable to live on.View 4 ImagesWendy says her life is 'agony' without her son MarcusREAD MORE: Terminally ill women 'robbed' of peaceful end as some consider starvation in fight for assisted dyingREAD MORE: Healthy mum's heartbreaking final acts before ending her life at Swiss clinicMusic-loving Marcus had fallen asleep on the sofa eating a sandwich with a hangover. "I'd been making myself one. Cheese and onion, and he said he'd have one. ‘Throw a couple of those cherry tomatoes on mine,’ he said.'‌She cut the tomatoes in half and left him to his sandwich and was 'getting stuff ready for work...