Catherine Kassenoff, a mother who had beaten breast cancer twice and faced off against criminals and gang members when she was a federal prosecutor, admitted that it was the New York family court system that broke her.
In the suicide note posted on Facebook on 27 May, she said that she was scheduled to die via assisted suicide later that day.
The note shared details of the Westchester, NY, mother-of-three’s sadness and reasoning behind her decision to end her life in Switzerland.