Posted on 09/27/2014 1:46:14 PM PDT by NYer
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An elderly husband and wife 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.
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.
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.’
He told Moustique, a Belgian online news service, that they eventually opted for euthanasia because they were too scared to attempt to commit suicide.
>> When you decide to make your private life public you have given away the “it’s their business”.<<
So long as no one interferes with them nor advocates interfering I suppose you are right.
I may disagree with their decision but I uphold their right to do what they propose.
FIFY
My wife and I will pray for you and your husband and that your husband will be healed.
Actually the left preaches this and is fighting for it as a part of their culture of death, so defend it or not, but don’t deny who you are aligned with, and they aren’t deciding their destiny, they are merely killing themselves, their destiny after that will be decided for them.
i know of a few couples who have died in short time... one where the wife died on a Tuesday, and by Saturday the husband died--natural causes... another where they died within 5 months of each other and another where they died within 10 months of each other... so i took this to be a story a long those lines--only fantasy at the end where they died during the same night...
but he lived there too... their children wanted him to come back home, but he would not leave her... you didn't realized he lived there too? he was about as patient as anyone could be...
A strong implication came across to me in the movie that he went into his wife’s room to die with her and it seems to sympathize with the idea. That part seemed like an affirmation of our pro-death popular culture.
Only an atheist would believe you “FIFY.” Sad soul, I believe so much more than that, don’t you know.
This couple must have had a pretty good life together as they do not want to be with out each other.
They obviously was not afraid to live but now that it is about over they are not afraid to die, I say may God bless them.
>>Only an atheist would believe you “FIFY.” <<
Wrong. You can’t keep your theology out of other people’s liberty. If you want to start a theocracy, there are plenty of places outside the USA where you can.
>>Sad soul, I believe so much more than that, don’t you know.<<
And I know more than you would believe.
>>Actually the left preaches this and is fighting for it as a part of their culture of death, so defend it or not, but don’t deny who you are aligned with<<
It always saddens me when we resort to straw men here on FR.
You are, of course, 100% wrong...
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I will just ask this question, who is in trouble, the Christian who is not afraid to die or the one who would do anything to stay alive a little longer?.
That is a bit off-topic.
This couple isn’t dying.
No.
I’m 100% correct.
This is a generations old leftwing goal, you cannot deny who you are aligned with on this major portion of the left’s culture of death.
If you are going to preach Christian, then why not at least get on topic, is the Christian in trouble who values life and God’s word, or the ones who want to kill themselves in suicide pacts?
That is a bit off-topic.
This couple isn’t dying.
If you are going to preach Christian, then why not at least get on topic,
is the Christian in trouble who values life and God’s word, or the ones who want to kill themselves in suicide pacts?>>>>>
But since you brought it up why don1t you go to chapter and verse and maybe I can do the same.
Go ahead and explain to us where Christian couples should kill themselves in pairs to avoid natural deaths from old age.
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