Daughter Receives Text Message Notification That Her Mother Was Euthanized

A grieving daughter has spoken out after learning from a WhatsApp text message that her mother was euthanized in Switzerland.

Fifty-eight-year-old Maureen Slough, a retired Irish civil servant from Cavan, had told her family she was traveling to Lithuania with a friend.

Her family believed she was enjoying a vacation in Europe.

Instead, she secretly arranged “assisted suicide” at the Pegasos clinic in Switzerland.

At the clinic, Slough was euthanized by lethal injection while listening to an Elvis Presley song.

Her daughter, Megan Royal, says the family had no idea.

They only found out when the clinic texted them after her death.

The WhatsApp message simply informed the family that Slough had been killed and her ashes would be sent by mail.

“She had told us she was going to Lithuania, but she had confided in two people that she had other plans,” Royal said.

“After a series of concerned phone calls, she said she would come home, but then we got the WhatsApp message to say she had died.”

The procedure reportedly cost €15,000.

Weeks later, Royal and Slough’s partner, Mick Lynch, received farewell letters in the mail.

But they say Pegasos failed in its duty to contact the next of kin beforehand, despite Slough having listed her daughter, Megan, as her primary contact.

The clinic claims it had a letter from Megan authorizing the suicide, supposedly verified by email.

Megan insists she never wrote such a letter, never received an email, and was completely unaware that her mother would be euthanized.

It is now raising serious concerns that the document may have been forged.

Slough’s brother Philip, a U.K. lawyer, has called on the British Foreign Office to investigate.

He says Pegasos accepted “bogus” medical complaints as justification for her death and failed to notify the family in advance.

“The circumstances in which my sister took her life are highly questionable,” he said, pointing to previous controversies surrounding Pegasos and other British nationals.

Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1941, and its vague prohibition only against “selfish motives” has made it a hub for so-called euthanasia tourism.

Pegasos was already at the center of a similar scandal earlier this year when another mother ended her life there without informing her family.

Critics warn that if pro-euthanasia legislation advances in the UK, similar tragedies will unfold closer to home.

MP Kim Leadbeater is pushing an assisted suicide bill that would effectively normalize such practices, while efforts to require patients to at least inform their families have been dismissed.

MP Danny Kruger sounded the alarm, warning Parliament that doctors are increasingly trained to view loved ones trying to stop an assisted death as “coercion.”

“To enable doctors to issue lethal drugs that kill people without their family knowing is an absolutely tragic thing,” he said.

These concerns are echoed in Canada, where euthanasia has spiraled out of control since Justin Trudeau’s government legalized it in 2016.

At a press conference earlier this year, a Canadian woman revealed she only discovered her mother had been euthanized through a text message.

She said her mom was euthanized after being hospitalized for a mental health crisis.

What happened to Maureen Slough is not an isolated incident.

It is a glimpse into the grim future that pro-euthanasia activists are pushing for: a culture where parents, siblings, and children are left to discover their loved ones have been put to death by lethal injection, with no warning until after the fact.

This is not compassion. This is abandonment.

Unless lawmakers act, more families will be left devastated, receiving text messages and packages of ashes instead of the chance to fight for their loved ones’ lives.

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