A mother who admitted to giving her 7-year-old son a “large dose of morphine” to “quietly end his life” amid his stage 4 cancer diagnosis has died.
Antonya Cooper, 77, from Oxfordshire in England recently confirmed she’d given her son Hamish the fatal dose of the drug in 1981 while speaking to BBC Radio Oxford about wanting to change the U.K. law on assisted dying.
In the interview, she revealed that she was “dying too.” Per U.K. newspaper The Times, Antonya was diagnosed with breast and pancreatic cancer, and the disease had spread to her liver.
On Monday, July 8 Antonya’s daughter Tabitha told the BBC her mother died surrounded by family over the weekend.
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“She was peaceful, pain free, at home and surrounded by her loving family,” Tabitha said in the statement, per the outlet. “It was exactly the way she wanted it. She lived life on her terms and she died on her terms.”
Per the BBC, Tabitha confirmed that Thames Valley …
