When Did Double Suicides Become Trendy? – Allah's Willing Executioners

When a Brussels couple revealed that they were planning to die together in the world’s first “couple” euthanasia in 2014 despite not being terminally ill, the announcement was met with shock. 89-year-old Francis and 86-year-old Anne said their decision was driven by a fear of loneliness—all three of their adult children stated that they would be unable to care for their parents and supported their decision to be euthanized.
The couple’s doctor refused to do it; their 55-year-old son tracked down a willing physician in Flanders. As the put it at the time, “John Paul said the double euthanasia of his parents was the ‘best solution.’” He might have more accurately called it a “final solution.”
Since then, the phenomenon of couples dying together by euthanasia or assisted suicide has rapidly grown. On November 17, the German twin sisters Alice and Ellen Kessler, famous for their singing and dancing across the continent in the 1950s and ‘60s, died by double assisted suicide. The pair …