This Disturbed Woman Drank Anti-Freeze Then Gave Doctors in a&E a Letter Saying She Didn't Want to Be Saved. So, Were They Right to Let Her Die?
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A YOUNG woman with a history of mental illness was allowed to die after swallowing antifreeze because she had written a letter declaring she did not want to be saved.
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This Disturbed Woman Drank Anti-Freeze Then Gave Doctors in a&E a Letter Saying She Didn't Want to Be Saved. So, Were They Right to Let Her Die?
Kerrie Wooltorton arrived fully conscious in accident and emergency clutching a letter in which she said she did not want to be saved and was '100 per cent aware of the consequences'.
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