"Merciful Ruling On Suicide" (from UK Guardian)
The chairman of Sutton and Croydon Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre has been given a suspended sentence and 50 hours of community service for helping his wife to commit suicide.

David March pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on September 14 to aiding and abetting the suicide of his wife, Gillian, who had suffered from crippling multiple sclerosis (MS) for more than 20 years.

He was sentenced last Thursday to nine months in jail, suspended for a year. He was also ordered to do 50 hours unpaid work which he will complete at the therapy centre in Mount Lloyd Avenue.
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The court heard Mr March, 58, arrived home last September to find his wife slumped in her chair having overdosed on valium. She had put a bag over her head and tied it with string round her neck.

Mr March tied the string tighter and when she died 30 minutes later he called an ambulance.

Mr March was charged with murder but this was later changed when a pathologist stated that his 59-year-old wife may not have survived even without his intervention....MORE