Cenk Uygur
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Woman Chooses Suicide Over Old Age
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August 15, 2015
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6:51Now PlayingA nurse from the UK decided to go to Switzerland in order to receive doctor's assisted suicide, even though she was extremely healthy. Ana Kasparian (The Point) and Ben Mankiewicz (What the Flick) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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"A leading palliative care nurse with no serious health problems has ended her life at a Swiss suicide clinic because she did not want to end up as a “hobbling old lady”.
Gill Pharaoh, 75, who wrote two books giving advice on how to care for the elderly, was not suffering from a terminal disease.
She said she had seen enough of old age to know that she was “going over the hill” and wanted to take action to end her life while she was able to do so.
Speaking before her death in Basel, the mother of two said her experience as a nurse, including working in nursing homes, had shown her that the reality of old age was “awful”.
She told The Sunday Times: “I have looked after people who are old, on and off, all my life. I have always said, ‘I am not getting old. I do not think old age is fun.’ I know that I have gone just over the hill now. It is not going to start getting better. I do not want people to remember me as a sort of old lady hobbling up the road with a trolley."
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