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MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by chiawa: 7:38am On Sep 27, 2014
What happens when you are madly inlove with your spouse that the thought of either of you dying and leaving the other scares you? You commit legal suicide .
An elderly couple have announced their plans to die in the world's first 'couple' euthanasia - despite neither of them being terminally ill.Instead the pair fear loneliness if the other one dies first from natural causes.Identified only by their first names, Francis, 89, and Anne, 86, they have the support of their three adult children who say they would be unable to care for either parent if they became widowed.

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The children have even gone so far as to find a practitioner willing to carry out the double killings on the grounds that the couple's mental anguish constituted the unbearable suffering needed to legally justify euthanasia.The couple, from Brussels, are receiving regular medical treatment for age-related ailments.

Francis has received treatment for prostate cancer for 20 years and is unable to spend a day without morphine and Anne is partially blind and almost totally deaf.They always go out shopping together because they are both scared that one day the other will not return home.
They decided that life in a care home was not an option because of their fear they would end up bedridden without the strength to insist on euthanasia.

They are also afraid that a good retirement home would cost more than their combined pensions and that they would have to dig into their savings to afford it.
They planned to commit suicide on February 3 next year, their 64th wedding anniversary, by placing plastic bags over their heads after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
Francis told Moustique, a Belgian online news service,

'We want to go together because we both fear of the future,' said Francis. 'It's as simple as this: we are afraid of what lies ahead.'Fear of being alone and above all, fear of the consequences of loneliness.'It takes courage to jump from the 20th floor and I am unable even if I wanted to do it,'It takes courage to hang, it takes courage to jump into the canal. But a doctor who makes you a shot and lets you gently fall asleep? It does not take courage.'Without our son and our daughter, it would never have succeeded,''We are not sad, we are happy,'. 'When we were told we could leave life together smoothly we were on a little cloud. It was as if we had spent all that time in a tunnel and suddenly we came into the light again.'

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Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by angelcj: 7:40am On Sep 27, 2014
could this be love? or what bikonu?
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by tempest01(m): 7:42am On Sep 27, 2014
They should just leave nature to take its course

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Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Nobody: 7:44am On Sep 27, 2014
We want to go together because we both fear of the future

You should be more afraid of what lies ahead after death, judgement, the grave, and death itself.

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Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by OkikiOluwa1(m): 7:58am On Sep 27, 2014
Its called die & die.

Last Bullet


It happens in Mario Game
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Truth24(m): 8:11am On Sep 27, 2014
And so does what??
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Nobody: 8:29am On Sep 27, 2014
rokiatu: We want to go together because we both fear of the future

You should be more afraid of what lies ahead after death, judgement, the grave, and death itself.


bleh tongue

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Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by ginajet(f): 9:09am On Sep 27, 2014
ok
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Nobody: 11:03am On Sep 27, 2014
Awwww. Why don't they wait a little longer?
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by 50calibre(m): 11:50am On Sep 27, 2014
I can understand their logic, I think it's a reasonable decision.

They're old and frail, sooner or later, one of them will drop dead.

Why then continue to suffer with sicknesses, along with the additional prospect of losing someone you've been with for 64 years?

At 86 & 89, they've enjoyed a long life, they can choose to leave it peacefully & on their own terms.
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Nobody: 1:55pm On Sep 27, 2014
It is romantic to die at the same moment a your other half. That seems to be the only justification for this euthanasia, since either spouse can wait for the other to die and then kill him/herself shortly after, before the anguish sets in properly.

I guess they want to outdo Romeo and Juliet.
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Nobody: 2:20pm On Sep 27, 2014
chiawa:
The children have even gone so far as to find a practitioner willing to carry out the double killings on the grounds that the couple's mental anguish constituted the unbearable suffering needed to legally justify euthanasia.The couple, from Brussels, are receiving regular medical treatment for age-related ailments.

They decided that life in a care home was not an option because of their fear they would end up bedridden without the strength to insist on euthanasia.

They are also afraid that a good retirement home would cost more than their combined pensions and that they would have to dig into their savings to afford it.
They planned to commit suicide on February 3 next year, their 64th wedding anniversary, by placing plastic bags over their heads after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
Francis told Moustique, a Belgian online news service,
Before nko? who are you leaving the savings for? your selfish children?
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Airforce1(m): 2:27pm On Sep 27, 2014
these would make a good nollywood script
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by AKMoney1(m): 3:06pm On Sep 27, 2014
Eleyi gidi gan ooo.
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by egopersonified(f): 4:40pm On Sep 27, 2014
Feb is too far, what if one dies before then. Well, RIP in advance.
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Sarimah(f): 6:16pm On Sep 27, 2014
Could this be love?
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Nobody: 8:09pm On Sep 27, 2014
Shuuu shocked shocked shocked

Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by princealbashir: 8:19pm On Sep 27, 2014
Feb nxt yr?, Things really happening in this world. But seriously, after over 60years of getting married, the bond is still that strong? This na the real Till Death Separates Us.
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Ichel: 8:21pm On Sep 27, 2014
Sarimah: Could this be love?
Can we die together sweety?
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by kheart(m): 8:59pm On Sep 27, 2014
hmmm dis is lubricous, my pupils go suffer.
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by nikkyshyne(f): 9:09pm On Sep 27, 2014
Elder Romeo and Elder Juliet
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Nobody: 11:49pm On Sep 27, 2014
This is serious!

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Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by HFOG(f): 12:02am On Sep 28, 2014
rokiatu: We want to go together because we both fear of the future

You should be more afraid of what lies ahead after death, judgement, the grave, and death itself.


Word
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by amakufrancis(m): 4:49am On Sep 28, 2014
see love
Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by Sarimah(f): 7:15am On Sep 28, 2014
Ichel:
Can we die together sweety?
God 4bid undecided

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Re: MUST SEE! Couple To Die Together In The World's First 'couple' Euthanasia' by allwestafrican: 11:46am On Sep 28, 2014
certainly end time happenings.........

disgusting too

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