Elderly Belgian couple euthanized together

March » 2011 » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: An elderly couple didn’t want to live without each other. So, they received a joint euthanasia. Apparently the local community knew they were planning it, as you will see by playing the embed above. From the “euthanasia expert” quoted in the story:

It is an important signal to break a taboo. This can be viewed as a normal way of dying and viewed as such by the community at large. . . . Non terminal partners, as we call them, also have the option of dying together. It’s legally possible. There are no legal difficulties [in Belgium]. It is only less well known.