‘I had to track her ashes using a code, like she was a parcel in the post’ – daughter speaks about mother’s assisted death at Swiss clinic

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Maureen Slough

The daughter of the Co Cavan-based woman who was assisted in ending her life alone at a controversial Swiss clinic has told of her sadness and disbelief after her ashes were sent home in the post.

Maureen Slough (58), who had a history of mental illness, travelled to the Pegasos clinic in Switzerland on July 8 having told her family she was going to Lithuania with a friend.