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A man has landed himself in serious trouble with the law after he reportedly helped his girlfriend commit suicide.
Policemen in the US have arrested a man and charged him with assisted suicide after his girlfriend reportedly told him she would rather die in his arms than continue living with stage four cancer, according to court documents.
A report by NYDaily revealed that Matthew Stubbendieck, 41, led authorities to the woods where his girlfriend Alicia Wilemon-Sullivan, 38, cut her own wrists, an autopsy revealed she didn’t have any cancerous masses or tumors in her body.
Wilemon-Sullivan told her boyfriend of more than a year that the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes of her neck, armpit and stomach, according to court records.
The 38-year-old said she wanted to die in his arms, and the couple planned her suicide in phone calls and texts, KETV reported.
Stubbendieck told authorities he had never accompanied his girlfriend to medical appointments, according to the records. He said he didn’t think she had a regular doctor, but that she had been diagnosed and treated in emergency rooms.
In late July, she left her three children behind in Florida and flew to meet Stubbendieck in his home state of Nebraska, according to an affidavit cited by KETV.
They walked into an area called Acapulco Lake, where they stayed for several hours as she tried to kill herself, according to the records.
Authorities said Stubbendieck tried to suffocate her twice, but stopped because she appeared to be suffering.
She was still able to whisper when he left her around 9:30 p.m., and he returned the next day to find Wilemon-Sullivan dead with wounds a doctor said were consistent with self-inflicted cuts.
An investigation found Wilemon-Sullivan had chemicals in her system, including morphine. While there was nothing to prove she had cancer, the evidence didn’t conclusively prove she was cancer-free either, Lt. Larry Burke told the Omaha World-Herald. The cause of her death in a final autopsy report was also undetermined.
While Stubbendieck said he promised his girlfriend not to tell anyone about her death for five or six months, he contacted the police three days later because the secret was “destroying his family” according to court records.
Her family members are now calling for authorities to prosecute Stubbendieck “to the fullest extent allowable under Nebraska law.”

Source: NYDaily