- She received a letter
- from the Department
- saying she should go back to work.
- She suffered chronic breathlessness,
- pulmonary disease,
- depression;
- she was a recovering methadone addict.
- The letter also told her
- her incapacity benefit
- would be stopped.
- She was so distressed
- she took a cocktail of drugs.
- She recovered
- after treatment in hospital.
- She regretted trying to take her own life
- and vowed to fight the decision.
- She died two days later.
- A suicide note had been left in a sealed envelope
- some medication was around the floor.
- A post-mortem examination revealed
- she only had a small amount of drugs in her system –
- mostly from the suicide attempt
- two days previously.
- The coroner was satisfied
- that she died
- of natural causes.
- After her body was found
- a second, unopened letter
- was also discovered
- indicating she would not
- lose her benefit after all.
[Evening Standard, 14/08/2013, Suicide bid of woman who feared losing her incapacity benefit]