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Article: Just let me die, Hindley begged hospital doctors; Moors Murderer was on 24 drugs a day, inquest is told.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2003
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Byline: CHRISTIAN GYSIN
MYRA HINDLEY asked doctors not to resuscitate her as she lay dying, it was revealed yesterday.
The 60-year- old Moors Murderer also insisted she did not want her life prolonged in an intensive care unit.
And it emerged that in her last years she had taken 24 types of medication a day for a range of ailments including angina, osteoarthritis, bronchitis, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome and chronic emphysema.
She had broken a heel in 1980, had a hip replacement in 1995 and had also had a stroke.
The cost to the taxpayer of the 42 pills she took every day was just under pound sterling13 - or pound ...