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The High Court in Pretoria is expected to rule today on whether a terminally ill man can get a doctor’s help to commit suicide.

Sixty-five year old former advocate Robin Stransham-Ford was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in September 2013.

Dignity SA's Patsy Schonegevel shares her late son's health struggles. Craig Schonegevel took his own life after a lifelong struggle with the painful, often debilitating Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Schonegevel was outside court yesterday at the Right to Dignity demonstration.

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