Terminally ill businessman announces death date on LinkedIn

October 17, 2015 18:12

A 57-year-old terminally ill company director has used his LinkedIn profile to announce the dates of his death next week and funeral before he ends his own life at a Swiss euthanasia clinic.

Simon Binner, operations director at a health and social care organisation Caremark in Sutton, was diagnosed with aggressive motor neuron disease in January following which he handed over his role to another person and became a non-executive director.

"I died in Switzerland with Eternal Spirit on Mon 19 Oct 2015 and my funeral was on Fri 13 Nov 2015," Binner's profile on the website, mainly used for professional networking, reads.

"As I was driven home I had already decided what I would gladly have to do when my time was upon me.

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