Avril Henry

Avril K. Henry (5 April 1935 – 20 April 2016) was an English activist. She wanted the legalization of assisted suicide by euthanasia. She was a retired professor of English medieval culture at the University of Exeter.^[1][2][3]

Henry committed suicide by euthanasia at her home in Brampford Speke, Devon on 20 April 2016, aged 81.^[4] She illegally bought a euthanasia kit online before her death.^[5]

Some of her works

• Biblia Pauperum. Scolar, Aldershot, 1987. (Editor) ISBN 9780859675420
• The Eton Roundels: Eton College MS 177 'Figurae Bibliorum' A Colour Facsimile With Transcription, Translation and Commentary