Betty Rollin, a network news correspondent who described intensely personal life passages in two memoirs — “First, You Cry,” about being diagnosed with breast cancer and having a mastectomy, and “Last Wish,” in which she revealed that she had helped her pain-ravaged mother end her life — died on Nov. 14 in Basel, Switzerland. She was 87. The cause was voluntary assisted suicide, at Pegasos, an assisted dying service, said Ellen Marson, a close friend, who disclosed the death to The New York Times on Thursday. Ms. Rollin had been dealing with pain from arthritis and a gastrointestinal condition, she said, and had been brokenhearted since the death of her husband, Harold Edwards, a mathematician, in 2020. “Betty recently told a few close friends she was going to do this,” Ms. Marson wrote in an email.

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Persons: Betty Rollin, — “, —, Ellen Marson, Ms, Rollin, Harold Edwards, “ Betty, Marson, Betty Organizations: New York Times Locations: Basel, Switzerland, Pegasos, Manhattan