Why a couple married for 50 years chose to die together in duo-euthanasia

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Why a couple married for 50 years chose to die together in duo-euthanasia
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Jan and Els met in kindergarten and spent the rest of their lives together.

Jan Faber and Els van Leeningen, from the Netherlands, died side by side in early June A couple – who had spent their lives together since childhood, after meeting in kindergarten – died together, ending their lives by lethal injection. Jan Faber and Els van Leeningen, from the Netherlands, were married for almost 50 years. They had a son together. As a young couple they lived on a houseboat, then moving into a campervan in the later years.

Els was diagnosed with dementia and by the end of her life, she struggled to formulate sentences Meanwhile, his wife, Els, was diagnosed with dementia and in the later years, she struggled to formulate her sentences. Before their death, he told the BBC: ‘If you take a lot of medicine, you live like a zombie. ‘So, with the pain I have, and Els’ illness, I think we have to stop this.’ Jan added: ‘I have lived my life, I do not want pain anymore. The life we have lived, we are getting old .

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