A mother who died in a Swiss euthanasia clinic without telling her family spent her final hours confiding in a TikTok friend she had never met about the suffering she had kept hidden from her own children.
Maureen Slough, 58, of County Cavan, Ireland, sent a series of haunting messages from inside the controversial Pegasos facility in Basel, where she had quietly paid £13,000 to end her life.
In them, she spoke of 'living in hell' for the past year, waking up each day 'crying, shaking', and insisting she would not 'allow a dog to suffer' the way she had.
Her daughter Megan said she was devastated to learn the news by text - and horrified when her mother's remains arrived in a plain brown pot with a scuffed gold label.
When Ms Slough flew to Switzerland on July 8, her family believed she was travelling to Lithuania with a friend. Two days later she died at Pegasos, listening to Elvis Presley's gospel music.
