29/04/2026
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The sister of a healthy British woman who died at a Swiss clinic said the family only found out about her sister's death through a two-line email😲.
Anne Canning, 51, secretly travelled to Switzerland to end her life at the Pegasos clinic, near the city of Basel, in January 2025. The woman, from Haverfordwest, Wales, was healthy but had been grieving the death of her son, who had suddenly died a few months before.
Anne's sister, Delia, over a year on from the death said she was "disgusted" the clinic did not tell the family after the 51-year-old secretly travelled to the controversial clinic.
Delia, 54, revealed that she and her brother only discovered Anne's plan to end her life after the 51-year-old sent her family a goodbye letter from Switzerland. The sister said Anne's loved ones believed she had travelled to the country on holiday and did not know her intentions.
The sister, speaking to The Telegraph, said: "The impact Anne’s decision had on us was more about the shock and horror that such a thing could be arranged and executed in such a short timeframe, in absolute secret from all loved ones, with no other avenues being explored first."
Delia said her sister, a grandmother-of-two, changed after her son's death. She said: "I just wish she could have talked to somebody, one of the family or a professional, to persuade her to give it a little more time."
