Witness History: Archive 2012 - The right to die
In 2002 a paralysed woman, known as Miss B, was allowed to die in a London hospital.
She had gone to the High Court to win the right to have a ventilator which kept her alive, switched off.
The judge in the case was Baroness Elizabeth Butler Sloss.
Photo of Baroness Butler Sloss, Press Association.
Published on Monday, 30th April 2012.
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