Cancer sufferer Robin Stransham-Ford dies on the same day court makes landmark ruling on assisted suicide ROBIN Stransham-Ford passed away on Thursday morning and never heard the Pretoria High Court ruling that he was allowed to commit assisted suicide."It was apparently a peaceful death‚" said his ex-wife Angela Botha‚ signaling he had died of natural causes. He had been terminally ill with prostate cancer.Stransham-Ford was surrounded by family members and some of his children on Wednesday night.He had been staying with his former partner and mother of his fourth child in her Cape Town house and receiving medical care from a doctor who specialised in palliative care.Just after 10am on Thursday Judge Hans Fabricius ruled that the doctor who would assist Stransham-Ford to die would face no criminal sanction and would not lose his medical licence.The court order is a landmark ruling as it will allow other terminally ill‚ mentally sound people to approach the courts if they wish to di...
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