There remain troubling questions Who are the last pictures of Chantal Sebire's seen on television, the wife of her illness with the unimaginably horrible disfigured face, will not soon forget them - might never .
for her well worn in the public battle for assisted suicide have been certified in some media woman Sebire unbroken will and great courage. " That may be so. But you will ask but may Chantal Sebire why has taken their fight at all in public. Why she believed the public were, "in Hostage "for her - in their view, the more understandable - to be able to take requests? Who has suggested any reason to take this step? Does it matter that, while terminally ill, but apparently was not helpless?
In the background of the desire of Mrs Sebire could find the despair of his own suffering, a change in consciousness about the rights and obligations in the case of (severe) disease are. A sick person is in our legal system in general entitled to, to miss out on life support - even with the risk of earlier death. This requirement of the patient but is not compulsory third party for aid against, it is clear from any claim (the patient) can help against the company, the state, to him at the end of life. A similar shift is
seem to have happened in Holland. The legalization of euthanasia was originally (in shortened form) designed to protect the doctors from the criminal consequences. Over the years, it - in the minds of the general public - a demand of the patient (or even their families) to become the state / medical assistance to die.
Even those who have deeply touched by the plight of Chantal Sebire, should the suggested relationships not lose sight of - in the interest of the right to a decent life before dying in the process of dying.
that after the increased use of palliative care and hospice care to our neighbors, Holland, the number of reported euthanasia is clearly downward, is a welcome sign - for us and for the development.
The picture shows Joseph Carey Merrick in 1889 (Institute Library), who suffers from a similar disease like Chantal. The eponymous film of 1980 told in striking black and white images from the discovery of a circus as a monster and submitted in its subsequent incarnation. The physician, Dr. Treves, Merrick the first shot from scientific grounds, and his "elephant man" fame, will learn at the moment, the personality of his patient. Before John Merrick dies of gradually increasing the adhesions, he could learn to live with dignity and without fear.
