 'He was determined. Absolutely adamant. He never ate anything – not even his chocolate biscuits. 'Halfway through he said he had forgotten what they looked like. He always had a sweet tooth. He was all for assisted dying. He said it was your choice. But he never joined Dignitas - it's terribly expensive. And you have got to be able to travel.' The veteran had lived a fiercely independent life, serving in the convoys during the war and later being posted overseas to Malta with the commandos. After leaving the military, he worked for the Ministry of Defence. His wife Rosina died in 1990. Aged 98, he moved into an annexe at his daughter and son-in-law's home in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. Annie and husband Bryan said watching the great-grandad-of-two starve to death was torture. As Harry wasted away he eventually lost the muscle strength to speak before he died on June 21. Veteran Marine Commando Harry Moore ( Family Handout) Bryan, 64, added: 'From a man who was totally independent to a man like a skeleton lyin){kind=link}
After falling for the third time in succession, World War II hero Harry Moore, aged 102, wanted to die but it took him eight weeks starving himself to finally die
A Second World War hero denied an assisted death passed away looking “like a skeleton” after starving himself for eight weeks.
After his third fall in short succession, former Marine Commando Harry Moore, 102, told his family: “I have had enough.”
From that day he refused to eat, begging his doctors for a “pill” to end it all.
Medics expected him to slip away quickly, but it took eight weeks of agony for him to end his life.