THE ex-wife of Blur drummer Dave Rowntree, who ended her life in the Dignitas clinic, left almost £1millon in her will.
Cancer-stricken Paola Marra left most of her £941,000 estate to her two brothers and two sisters.
She also bequeathed £50,000 to her 60-year-old ex, to whom she had remained close after their divorce in 2000.
Former music industry worker Paola left £4,000 each to four charities, as well as £10,000 to a pal for looking after her pets.
Paola had called for assisted dying laws.
In a video released after her death last year at 53, she said: “Assisted dying is not about giving up.
“It’s about giving people the right to end their suffering on their own terms, with compassion and respect.”
She asked for her ashes to be scattered on Hampstead Heath, close to her North London home.
Marra and Rowntree had remained close after their split and the drummer went on record to slam the ‘psychopathic’ laws on assisted dying in the UK.
Rowntree said the current law results in people who wish to end their lives ‘creeping around like criminals’.
He said: “Not only that, but when the time comes, if they do decide to die with dignity, and end their life in a time of their choosing, and in a way of their choosing, they have to do it unsupported by anyone, on their own, not able to hold anyone’s hand, not able to hug somebody and say goodbye.”
Canada-born Paola, who had breast and bowel cancer, died in the Swiss clinic last March.
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Founded in 1998, over 2,100 people have died with Dignitas’ help, in assisted suicides at home or at the society’s house near Zürich.
The Swiss society helps members with severe physical or mental illnesses, as well as the terminally ill, to end their own lives.
Dignitas also does advisory work on end-of-life care, healthcare and suicide prevention, as well as lobbying governments on right-to-die laws.
Dignitas rents a number of apartments in Zurich, and also has a house near the city.
They offer assisted suicide at the house, as well as giving members the choice to die at their homes in Switzerland.