Official: Chantal Sebire Took Her Own Life « FOX News Health Blog

March 27th, 2008 1:26 PM Eastern

Official: Chantal Sebire Took Her Own Life

by Jessica Doyle

The French woman who had sought the legal right to commit suicide to end the suffering caused by an incurable and disfiguring cancer killed herself with sleeping tablets, authorities said.

Chantal Sebire, 52, whose face was distorted by a rare cancer of the sinus, was found dead in her home in eastern France last week, shortly after a court ruled that a doctor could not be allowed to help her die.

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