Living Will Suicide Was Lawful, Says UK Coroner Inquest
by Cathy Ruse
October 7, 2009
Last week I mentioned the tragic death of a depressed young woman who drank antifreeze and presented a Living Will forbidding treatment to save here. According to a Coroner’s Inquest this week, the doctors who let poor Keri Wooltorton, 26, die acted lawfully:
Doctors who allowed a young British woman to die in hospital after she swallowed poison and declared her intention to commit suicide acted lawfully, according to the findings of an inquest this week. Under the provisions of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the coroner’s inquest ruled that doctors had no choice but to allow the woman to die after she had written a letter saying she did not want to be saved.
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