Dirk Vervoorts, diagnosed with Huntington's disease, made his intentions clear from the start with his wife, Jane. He wished for a peaceful, assisted death, attempting suicide three times. After his death, Jane was questioned by police, adding trauma to their ordeal. Despite being released without charges, Jane continues to cope with the aftermath.
Dirk Vervoorts was upfront with the woman who he eventually married from the moment they met. If his Huntington's got too bad, he would choose suicide and spare himself and those around him the pain.
"If we'd have been able to have the choice, his death would have been something that you could look back on. But instead I'm still recovering from it now, a year and a half later. And while knowing a partner is ready to take their own life would petrify most, Jane says the couple had got used to the idea Dirk would eventually pass and they would even joke about it. Dirk, who died on May 12, 2023, aged 54, was on the highest medication possible in the days leading up to his death, which affected his liver, his heart and his pancreas.
But the next day, a second ambulance, this time accompanied by police officers, arrived at the address. Jane says that since Dirk's death, she has found out that the carers were "documenting everything". Dirk passed away in a room full of police officers and paramedics, and his wife and mother. "The room he died in was full of people who shouldn't have been there," Jane said.
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