If your life is not your own, to do with as you please, then you are a slave. I'm happy for this couple, they seem like exactly the kind of people who get the most benefit out of this choice.
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My parents are reaching the same point, only with positions swapped - my father with dementia, my mother in incessant hip and other pain that has no cure. They are both researching options, frustrated that the Canadian MAID program offers neither a dementia option nor a couples option.
And as their eldest, it is my duty of care to implement whatever choice they make. They took care of me in the beginning, I take care of them at the end. And choice is the most powerful gift I could possibly help them retain.
I read an interesting memoir about a couple who survived the holocaust together deciding to die together in the end. Written by their granddaughter.
That is wild that they survived together. That is unheard of
They were hungarian jews and got separated during the war. If I remember right, the husband survived Mauthausen.
But 'unheard of' is quite exaggerated. While many people were left without surviving family, there were still many who found parts of their family and partners again after the war.