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