A family has been left distraught after allegedly receiving a text message from a suicide clinic in Switzerland telling them that their mother was dead and her ashes would be sent in the post.
Maureen Slough, a 58-year-old mother from Cavan, Ireland, travelled to the Pegasos clinic on July 8 telling her family she was going to Lithuania with a friend, according to a report in the Irish Independent.
But her daughter, Megan Royal, was shocked when she later received a WhatsApp message saying her mother had died listening to gospel music sung by Elvis Presley, the report claimed.
Now the family is demanding answers to find out why their mother, who they say attempted suicide a year earlier following the deaths of her two sisters, was able to seek assisted dying - without the family being informed, they claim.
Friends of the mother are also reportedly horrified by the way the clinic repatriated the woman's remains - in the post.
