[acb-hsp] [acb-l] sad sad story

[peter altschul]

Twins allowed to commit suicide

Published: 12/01/2013 at 03:56 PM

BRUSSELS - Identical twins were allowed to take their lives 
together
after their dwindling eyesight became an unbearable burden, a 
Belgian
newspaper has reported.

The men died on Dec 14, Het Laatste Nieuws reported, in the first 
case
in the world of twins using the legal right to euthanasia.

The 45-year-old men, who were born deaf, had spent their entire 
lives
together, the newspaper reported.  They grew up in the same room, 
both
qualified as shoemakers and later moved into the same apartment 
in
Putte, 30 kilometres northeast of Brussels.

But their dwindling eyesight meant that within a few years they 
would
lose their only means of communication.  They found the prospect 
of
only being able to touch one another intolerable, the newspaper 
wrote.

Belgian law permits euthanasia if the wish is expressed by the 
patient
and doctors detect an unbearable degree of suffering.

The brothers had no terminal illness or physical pain, but the 
doctors
at the UZ hospital in Brussels agreed to their request.

From
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/330499/twins-allowed-to-c
ommit-suicide



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