After she was diagnosed with a terminal illness, she attended the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, which assisted her to commit suicide.
She won the Austrian women's ice skating championships three times, and later enjoyed skiing and swimming.
She was brought up as part of the family of Dr. Hans Hock, merchant banker and partner in Singer and Friedlander, London, to whom she referred throughout her life as "Mummy" and "Daddy".
After spending some time on Wall Street with W. E. Hutton & Co., she was elected as a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange in 1969.
After several unsuccessful applications, she was one of the first ten women to be elected as a member of the London Stock Exchange on 26 March 1973.
In retirement, she moved to Scotland with her husband, living in the grounds of Gosford House, near Aberlady in East Lothian.
Diagnosed with a terminal illness when aged 82, she chose to attend the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, which assisted her to commit suicide by drinking a lethal mixture of barbiturates.