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Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by godwinkessi: 11:31am On Sep 29, 2014
An elderly couple in Belgian will go into the
history book as the world's first when they
commit joint legally assisted suicide.

An old couple who have been married for 63 years
is about make history as the world's first couple to
undergo a joint euthanasia, or in plain term,
assisted suicide, a form of legal suicide. The elderly couple » , Francis, 89 and his wife, Anne, 86, are said to be so much in love that they
do not want to live apart. The couple, none of them
terminally ill, want to take their love to their graves
and they have the support of their three adult
children. So instead of either couple feeling lonely when one
goes, they have decided to leave at the same time. According to Mail Online » , the couple's 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 the double suicide on
February 3 2015, 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. 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.

Can such a love exist in this parts?

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Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by Yungwhy(m): 11:46am On Sep 29, 2014
What if one dies, and the other doesn't.... This people dey try GOD

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Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by philantoxx(m): 11:51am On Sep 29, 2014
Romeo and Julie state of mind
Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by godwinkessi: 4:33pm On Sep 29, 2014
Front page things
Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by GreenBobo: 5:08pm On Sep 29, 2014

We are not sad, we are happy.

Stay alive and re-live the memories!
That's happiness!
Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by Nobody: 5:48pm On Sep 29, 2014
Old age, love or whatever; I still can't understand why suicide is still an option. And I guess I never will.
Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by ahnie: 7:43pm On Sep 29, 2014
oh no!!!
Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by Nobody: 8:29pm On Sep 29, 2014
These oyibo people, wetin person no go see for them undecided undecided undecided



But their love strong shaaaa
Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by Amhappy(f): 8:42pm On Sep 29, 2014
Assisted sucide ke? Thou shall not kill ooo. This couple are supposed to be grateful for long life and good health(since they are not terminally ill) instead of commiting sucide. Oyibo dey craze. Aged bed ridden elders in my villa still pray for long life sef.

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Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by godwinkessi: 7:00am On Sep 30, 2014
Amhappy: Assisted sucide ke? Thou shall not kill ooo. This couple are supposed to be grateful for long life and good health(since they are not terminally ill) instead of commiting sucide. Oyibo dey craze. Aged bed ridden elders in my villa still pray for long life sef.
but was it really written in the bible that thou shall not kill "Urself".
Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by godwinkessi: 8:16am On Oct 01, 2014
godwinkessi: Front page things
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Re: Love So Strong; Elderly Couple To Die Together In World's First Assisted Suicide by Nobody: 10:55pm On Oct 01, 2014
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