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'He wasn't prepared for a second-class life': why injured rugby star went to Switzerland to die | UK news Police are investigating the assisted suicide of 23-year-old rugby player Daniel James. Photograph: PA A 23-year-old who played rugby for England as a teenager has committed suicide in a Swiss euthanasia clinic after having become paralysed from the chest down in a training accident. Police are investigating. Nuneaton rugby club hooker Daniel James felt his body had become a "prison" and lived in "fear and loathing" of his daily life, his parents said last night, having accompanied him to Switzerland from their home in Sinton Green, near Worcester. West Mercia Police have begun an investigation into his assisted suicide, which took place on September 12. James' parents, Mark and Julie, said last night that their son had been "an intelligent young man of sound mind" and "not prepared to live what he felt was a second-class existence". He is one of the youngest Britons to have travelled abroad for assisted suicide. James was a talented player who seemed destined for a professional career.

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