Marieke Vervoort was suffering from an incurable muscle disease, they could only move in a wheelchair to continue. The Athlete has won numerous medals. Your supported suicide had announced some time ago.
The Belgian Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort had once said, when the day comes, I signed the euthanasia papers and am ready to end the life. On Tuesday, the date for the 40-year-old exceptional athlete had come, like the mayor of your hometown, Diest, Chritophe De Graef, new York.
Vervoort, which is in Belgium by the nickname “Wielemie” is known, could move because of their illness since 2000, only in a wheelchair to continue. In 2006 and 2007, she won the world championship in para-triathlon. At the Paralympics in London 2012 she repeated as a hand-held biker one Gold and one silver. Three more medals you took at the Paralympic games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 with the home.
Marieke Vervoort won in London Paralympic Gold in the 100 metres hand bike
Never without pain
In an Interview, in 2016, with the AP news Agency Vervoort described her life with continuous pain. Some nights you sleep, therefore, is only ten minutes. The pain was so intense, that other people would pass out, if you would only observe them. The Sport would keep them alive. “The Training and the competitions are my medicine.”
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Euthanasia can also save lives
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Euthanasia can also save lives
Now the Belgian is dead. In Belgium active euthanasia is under certain conditions since 2002, legal.
Finally, the number of cases increased slightly. A total of 2357 people in the past year were affected. 67.1 percent were older than 70 years.
In most patients, a combination of “serious and incurable diseases has been given” as the reason for the choice of active euthanasia.
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The Deutsche Welle reports cautious on the subject of suicide, since there is evidence that some forms of reporting can lead to imitation reactions. If you entertain even thoughts of suicide or in emotional distress stuck, do not hesitate to seek help. Where there is help in your country, see the Website https://www.befrienders.org/ . In Germany, the telephone counseling helps you with the cost-free numbers 0800/111 0 111 and 0800/111 0 222.