#RightToDie advocate dies before landmark ruling

30 April 2015 - 18:27
By Katharine Child

Robin Stransham-Ford passed away this morning and never heard the Pretoria High Court ruling in court that he was allowed to commit assisted suicide. "It was apparently a peaceful death‚" said his ex-wife Angela Botha‚ signalling he had died of natural causes. He had been terminally ill with prostate cancer.

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