The internist Dr. Mechthild Bach is dead after notification of the prosecutor and the police in Hildesheim, the 61-year old this afternoon found dead in her home in Bad Salzdetfurth. Everything points to suicide. Perhaps the cancer specialist was the pressure of criminal proceedings against them ceased. While some experts Mechthild Bach certified that it had only done pain-assisted suicide, the court concluded in Hannover before einiegn days off, that a conviction was possible because of Modes in 13 patients.
For almost a year, the former oncologist is on trial, because in the Paracelsus Clinic in Lower Saxony Langenhagen 13 patients should have killed them in high-dose painkillers.
went So far in the proceedings before the jury Hannover, the cause of death of five patients who died between 2001 and 2003 in the Paracelsus Clinic after the internist had prescribed them high-dose levels of morphine and Valium. The evaluators were fighting to the end as to whether the patients died at source by the suffering or pain killers which Dr Mechthild Bach administered them to alleviate their suffering.
Bach defender Matthias Waldraff showed up last convinced that the allegation that the defendant had to be deliberately killed people, had medical reasons to invalidate.
The 61-year old, now put an end to her life, saw themselves as representative of a holistic medicine, the quality of life in doubt, was worth more than the sheer number of "active days. "Everyone has the right to assign the last part of life in dignity and to live free of fear," said Mechthild Bach in court. that the internist had been for many people the last stop after they were abandoned by other doctors already.
After the court had announced a few days ago, it came a conviction for murder in question was the duration of the process has been dated to 2012.
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