One-way Journey to Switzerland
Chantal Sébire then and now. It’s not hard to imagine the desperation.
After a widely publicised campaign and a short legal battle, Chantal Sébire has lost her right to die under the hands of a doctor.
A mother of three, Sebire drew a strong outpouring of sympathy when she appealed in a television interview last month for the right to “depart peacefully”.
Before-and-after pictures of the woman, her face severely deformed, have been featured in the press and her account of frightened children who run away at the sight of her has drawn sympathy.
Sebire learnt in 2002 that she had developed an esthesioneuroblastoma, an uncommon malignant tumour in the nasal cavity, which she said has led to “atrocious” suffering.
“In 2000, I lost the sense of smell and taste … and I lost my sight in October 2007,” she said in the television interview.
“One would not allow an animal to go through what I have endured,” she said before urging President Nicolas Sarkozy to intervene and grant her request.
She now plans to go to Switzerland, where active euthanasia is legal.
(AFP)
Disfigured French woman loses euthanasia bid (Telegraph)
Chantal Sebire’s euthanasia plea rejected (News.com)
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Tue 18-Mar-08 | Posted in: People, Environment & Health
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