Maureen Slough, 58, from County Cavan, Ireland, ended her life in Switzerland, having told her family she was going on holiday with a friend – but she travelled alone
A mother told her family she was going on holiday with a friend – only to travel alone to Switzerland to end her life.
Maureen Slough, 58, concealed her anguish from her children – and only revealed her plans to a friend she had met on TikTok during her final hours.
Though this friend was pledged to silence, she reached o ut to Megan Royal, one of Ms Slough’s daughters, online but attempts to contact the woman came too late. The news comes just weeks after Eamonn Holmes paid tribute as radio legend James Whale dies at 74 after five-year cancer battle.
During her last hours, the mother, from County Cavan, Ireland, sent a series of chilling messages online, including a text to Megan.
In a message to her online confidant, Ms Slough said: “I’m not myself. I feel like I’ve been living in hell for the last year and it’s not good. I wake up crying, shaking, everything, because I’m in fear all the time, and that’s not the way I want to live.
“God wouldn’t want me dying alone,’ she added. ‘But I don’t think God wants people to be suffering until the end like f**king dogs. I wouldn’t even allow my dog to suffer, the way I’ve been allowed to.”
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The disturbing messages were amongst Ms Slough’s final communications before her death at the facility in Basel.
She had informed her family she was travelling to Lithuania with a friend but instead journeyed to Switzerland, where assisted suicide has been legal since 1942, reports the Mirror.
Megan, a mum of two herself, shared: “He (the online confidant) just replied like,’Your mum’s in Switzerland.’ He’s like, ‘You have a right to know. I was sworn to secrecy. She’s there and she wants assisted suicide.’ I was so scared in that moment.”
She immediately rang her dad, who couldn’t get in touch with her mum in Switzerland.
The next day, around 1pm, Megan got a WhatsApp message telling her that her mum had passed away.
Speaking to the Irish Independent, Megan said: “In that very moment, because I was alone, I just sat there with the baby and cried… I just felt like my world ended.”
The text message reportedly came from the clinic in Basel. Megan found out her mum, whom she described as “a fiery, smart and dedicated woman”, had quietly submitted an application and paid approximately £13,000 to end her life in July.
Megan went on to say: “No one’s saying she wasn’t feeling pain. Not pain good enough to go and end her life. She had a lot more life to live and give… She was just in a dark time. She wasn’t terminally ill or, in my opinion, ill enough to go and do this and leave our family behind like that.”
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