The RCMP has cleared a retired Anglican minister in Nova Scotia of any wrongdoing in his wife's suicide death in Switzerland.

The investigation began after Eric MacDonald accompanied his wife Elizabeth to Zurich so she could end her life. She died June 8 in his arms.

Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, and the RCMP have concluded that no crime was committed in Canada.

"There was no one that actively participated in getting her to the clinic in Switzerland or were instrumental in orchestrating that whole thing," Const. Les Kakonyi said Tuesday.

"It would appear that this was done through her insistence and primarily through her own wishes."

Elizabeth MacDonald, 38, had a severe form of multiple sclerosis that left her in a wheelchair. Her throat was also beginning to paralyze.

Staff at the Dignitas clinic gave Elizabeth a glass of barbiturates and told her she would die if she drank it, but she did it without any hesitation, her husband has said.

The RCMP was informed of the case by Canada's Euthanasia Prevention Council, which lobbies against assisted suicide.