An 89-year-old British woman has killed herself at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, in part because she had become fed up with the modern world of emails, TVs, computers and supermarket ready meals.
Speaking in an interview before her death and asking only to be identified as Anne, the former art teacher and Royal Navy engineer said she had had enough of "swimming against the current" of the world.
In her application to Dignitas she reportedly described her life as "full, with so many adventures and tremendous independence", but had recently found her strength and health fading and feared the prospect of a prolonged period in hospital or a nursing home.
Anne, from Sussex, was neither terminally ill nor seriously handicapped when she died, and beforehand spoke out in favour of people having the right to die in the UK.
She told the Sunday Times: "They say adapt or die. At my age, I feel that I can't adapt, because the new age is not an age that I grew up to understand. I see everything as cutting corners. All the old-fashioned ways of doing things have gone."
