Advocate who won suicide assisted ruling is dead
Stransham-Ford suffered terminal prostate cancer
Amidst controversy whether medical assisted suicide should be allowed or not, an advocate who won his case earlier on Thursday, has died of natural causes.
Adv Robin Stransham-Ford’s death came on the same day a court ruled he would be allowed to initiate an assisted suicide without the doctor helping him being prosecuted.
IOL reported that Stransham-Ford, 65, was reported to be heavily sedated and a statement from his family did not say whether he died before or after the ruling.
“Since receiving the heartening news of the ground-breaking judgement, we are deeply saddened to announce that Robin has passed away,” the family said.
“It was in the presence of his family and carers that Robin died peacefully.”
Stransham-Ford suffered terminal prostate cancer.
Dignity SA, which lobbies for assisted suicide legislation, said that Stransham-Ford “died peacefully of natural causes”.
An earlier post on our website and Facebook page caused heavy debate among those in favour and those against medically assisted suicide.
