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Actress and Husband Choose to 'Die at Swiss Clinic' as They 'Can't Be Apart'
Ruth and Michael Posner chose assisted dying without terminal illness after 75 years together, highlighting a rare case of joint euthanasia by a devoted couple.
- On Tuesday, Ruth Posner, 96, actress and Holocaust survivor, and Michael Posner, 97, husband, died at the Pegasos clinic near Basel after sending emails to relatives.
- Facing failing senses and low energy, the Posners felt they were 'just existing' last year and had arranged to travel to Switzerland about a year earlier, Sonja Linden said.
- A Polish‑born survivor, Ruth Posner, 96, escaped the Warsaw ghetto, lost most family in Treblinka, built a career in theatre and TV including Leon the Pig Farmer, and earned a British Empire Medal in 2022.
- Friends described the decision as mutual and said they understood it despite shock, while the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Holocaust Educational Trust paid tribute; the couple are survived by one grandson.
- They were turned away by Dignitas clinic in Zurich for lacking proof of being within six months of death and are thought to have used the Pegasos clinic near Basel instead.
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