The tragic suicide of Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier: Arizona sisters were HELPED by mystery person
Claims have been made that the two sisters from the US state of Arizona who died by suicide in Switzerland were reportedly helped by a third person, who also sent text messages from their phones to their friends. It has been reported that the 54-year-old Lila Ammouri and Susan Frazier, 49, reportedly went to Switzerland in early February 2022 to end their lives as the country allows assisted suicide.
The Basel-Landschaft Public Prosecutor’s Office’s spokesperson Michael Lutz told The Independent, "The public prosecutor’s office of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft confirms that the two US women died during their stay in Switzerland. They both committed suicide – with the help of an assisted suicide organisation.” Lutz also noted: “In the specific case, the on-site checks by the authorities revealed that the assisted suicide took place within the legal framework, so that the Basel-Landschaft public prosecutor’s office did not open a criminal investigation.”
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On February 19, the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs confirmed their deaths but the sisters’ brother is still in shock and does not understand why they did that. Cal Ammouri, 60, told The Independent that the US Consular services did not tell him about their official cause of death before stating, “Nobody else really knows the specifics. I’m never going to get over it. I’m still shaken up, I’m all alone now. I am an only child now.” The New Yorker, who talked with the sisters a few weeks before they went to Switzerland, also added: “They were really special. They never hurt anybody. They were always helping everybody. They would go out of their way to help people, which is rare. Unfortunately it’s a tragedy, frankly.”
Lila was a palliative care doctor and her younger sister, Susan, was a registered nurse. The duo flew to Basel, Switzerland on February 3, from their home in Phoenix. However, when they failed to return to their work in mid-February, alarms were raised. Later, their deaths were confirmed.
Lila’s longtime friend David Biglari said he got a text from her from Switzerland but believes that someone else had sent it. “Some of the text communications they had, we are certain they were not from them. They were most likely fabricated with someone else,” he added.
According to reports, assisted suicide is constitutional in Switzerland. There are a number of facilities in the country that help in suicide. Though it's not known which facility's service Lila and Susan took they do traveled to Basel, a city, where Pegasos – a Swiss voluntary assisted dying (VAD) association is located. Its website says it “offers an assisted dying service to approved adults of sound mind, regardless of their country of origin/ residence. Pegasos enables a person to receive a peaceful, dignified and caring assisted death at their clinic in Basel.”
It has also been said that anyone using Pegasos’ services “must have a third party who is known to the individual be able available to identify them to the authorities after they die. If the sisters did use Pegasos service, it is unknown who would have been with them to identify them,” The Daily Mail reported.