A 51-YEAR-OLD Chalford woman who had registered with the assisted dying clinic Dignitas threw herself under a train after writing suicide notes to her loved ones, an inquest heard today.

Juliet Bergqvists's suicide came out of the blue one morning shortly after she had ordered a repeat prescription from her GP and ordered some goods to be delivered to her home in Oakridge Lynch, the Gloucester inquest was told.

But Gloucestershire senior coroner Katie Skerrett said she had no doubt Ms Bergqvist intended to end her life on March 3 this year.

She recorded a suicide conclusion.

Ms Bergqvist suffered from long standing epilepsy and a general anxiety disorder and had often talked about suicide and dying but always says she had no active plans to end her life, the inquest was told.

The 2Gether NHS Mental Health Trust regarded her as a 'low risk' of suicide and had discharged her after she did not complete a cognitive therapy course. However, she was seeing a psychiatrist privately as well.

Her partner, Ivan Vnucec, said in a statement to the inquest that they had met while living in New Zealand in 2001 and had been together since then. They moved back to the UK in 2007.

She had not worked throughout the time he had known her, he stated.

"There were no problems till the summer of 2012 when she collapsed in the garden.

"She also had further collapses. They seemed to be separate to her epilepsy seizures. She started experiencing anxiety after these collapses. "

He said she was 'OK' last Christmas but he felt she was regressing in the New Year.

"She had almost constant suicidal thoughts and was always talking about dying. She registered with Dignitas in January.

"The day before she died we went walking with the dog. She appeared better in herself. I put that down to her increasing her use of medication.

"We went to bed separately and nothing had caused me any concern."

He said at 4am he heard her screaming. He went to her and she said she couldn't breathe. He offered her medication to calm her down.

He then went back to bed but at 7.30am heard her moving about. Fifteen minutes later he realised she had left the house and he was so concerned he went out looking for her.

He walked up the steep slope to the Stroud-Swindon railway line at Skew Bridge calling her name, he said.

The inquest heard that at 8.10am she dived out of the undergrowth at the side of the railway track in front of the Swindon-Cheltenham passenger train driven by Nicholas Roach and was run over.

Her body was so badly injured that she had to be identified by fingerprints from her home.

Railway police investigator John Wilson said the driver had seen a 'flash' in front of him but only knew he had run someone over when his guard saw the body on the track behind them.

However, the camera on the front of the locomotive showed Ms Bergqvist 'suddenly emerge from the undergrowth on the nearside and dive into its path.'

Mr Wilson said flattened grass in the verge indicated she had waited there some time.

She had left suicide notes to her partner and others close to her.

The coroner said Ms Bergqvist's diary had "numerous entries documenting the mental or physical pains she had been suffering."

"It is very clear that this lady was battling with a number of mental health demons," said Mrs Skerrett.

"Following her collapses her mental anxiety had very much taken over."