inside a bucket of water, took her own life, a Coroner ruled last week.

A housekeeper found Mrs. Watson, who was suffering from Parkinson's disease, face down in a bucket of water on January 17, 1995 at her home on Grape Bay Drive in Paget.

Earlier that day she had given Watson her breakfast and was trying to find out what she wanted to eat for lunch when she noticed that the bathroom door was locked.

"I checked the bathroom door,'' the housekeeper said. "The door was closed so I knocked and asked her if she wanted any lunch.

"There was no answer. The door was locked and I could not get it open.'' She was later able to force the door and found Mrs. Watson.

"She had her head in the bucket and I felt that she was dead. I tried to lift her head so that I could revive her but her mouth was blue and her dentures were in the bucket.'' Mrs. Watson's psychiatrist Dr. Anne Guthrie said her patient was depressed and had received hospital care.

After leaving the hospital, however, Mrs. Watson became reluctant to leave the house, Dr. Guthrie said.

Dr. Guthrie explained that part of Mrs. Watson's depression stemmed from the loss of her husband although her family were supportive of her throughout her illness.

Despite the hospital visit Dr. Guthrie said Mrs. Watson experienced severe anxiety and had poor sleeping and eating habits.

However she said that Mrs. Watson never came to terms with her Parkinson's disease diagnosis and was "chronically dissatisfied with the quality of her life.'' King Edward VII Memorial Hospital pathologist Dr. John Winwick said Watson had cuts on her left wrist and forearm which were consistent with their being self-inflicted by a right handed person.

He said her lungs were congested and waterlogged but there were no foreign materials in the stomach.

Dr. Winwick said that her death was consistent with drowning.

In his verdict, Coroner Mr. Kenneth Brown said Mrs. Watson took her own life on January 17, 1995 and sent condolences to her family.