"I am dying." "There is no sense in trying to deny that fact nor my conviction that the end of my long journey through life is rather close" "Rather surprisingly" "I find that I feel much the way I imagine immigrants to America must have felt in the 19th century" "I cannot stay where I have been and I embark on a journey to a destination of which I have only heard the vaguest rumors." "On the day of his scheduled suicide Craig Ewert arrives at an apartment building in Zurich, Switzerland, mary his wife of thirty seven years is inside" "Five months earlier, Ewert, a 59-year-old American, was diagnosed with ALS, often called" "Lou Gehrig's disease." "If he carries through responded with these disturbing in amherst but never really ask it myself if they wanted to let her down i do want to do it we're which you know there are other things that life both wanted to do" "they didn't do" "witness the indicated cv create your it started to think seriously about since i when his disease began progressing rapidly i got to be the middle of are disturbing and i filled out coming inside for prepare to get out and it was rather tropic for" "and that's really what i kinda started taking care of this is seriously deteriorated enough to fill the watchdog much of your schools before you kind of look at what's left that safe this is an additional ike probably next here steve rather unmoved perhaps people could say i don't know" "but and fifteen years surreal and there is that police detailing what bats for months and months at so that probably not date worst hiatus were when they were just kept coming up a diagnosis we talked about a week from tomorrow" "jiju i really want to do this and when do we want to do it we discussed is the fifth creek and many have been discussing everything that he he is it was an unlikely match mary wasn't outgoing irish catholic girl from a conservative family" "create was interpreted non-stick during the last year's creek would become a professor of computer science on the released their two children inside chicago afternoon early retirement and anxious to leave george bush is america creek took a part-time teaching job in england while mary static for a p_h_d_ degree in lol" "greatest alysha very gracious republic flight here we live together and turned for each other it was a very nicely and uh... eh and hopes that we go on for a decade or so" "unlikely keyword betty enjoys companies have been planning day-to-day for many years they have decided on cremation and it paid for memorial day since stanley park near the vancouver home dilemma when i first came here local school it was nothing" "and sent from my sympathy events it's a very good everybody was found to see them and so it was says that we we chose the anyway listening to are two of the group that was really interesting scooping but the next step in the plan for" "the deaths would require alone during the radical telling students in the most liberal interpretation of a person's right to die to exclude these has been thinking about death since his first heart attack forced into retirement at least fifty three since then" "his head three more heart attacks and his condition essentially worsened i've said from the past fifteen years and said that he doesn't want to live because he's a good thing he's been everything from from the day i met him before i met him having had no parents" "and my daughter ahead of course and that was fine but when i met him he became everything repeated over and of course it in lucky he he became everything and even though i i don't have mine my kids and i do love" "my grandkids but i don't see life without him as a rule and i don't think that simple right haven't had any needs it innocence machine where hugs and best occupying if you want them immediately it's your life" "ceases to into the one mineral to myself some time together in the economy good week minnelli operates as based non-profit organization called dignitaries into ranges assisting suicides for foreigners to swiss princess costume inside tourists instances in wilson in the u_s_ state of oregon assistance inside he said he thought" "but switzerland is the only place where non-residents can be helped to die the only restriction is that there is no selfish motive no personal our financial gain on the part of the less assisting since nineteen ninety seven ticket s has provided justice toots toots i throw for seven hundred people from twenty" "five countries he's been restricted in the press is doctor death but in fact ludwig minnelli is a seventy four-year-old human rights lawyer whose work has become his mission in life we almost went through so it happens uh... the renewal studying history so it should not happen" "awaited total cost was so which was change the starting point of suicide prevention saying suicide is a marvelous possibility for human being to restore limbs and former uh... situation which is unbearable by early september pre keyword felt his own situation had become" "unbearable which an assisted suicide through dignitaries would require creates a performed the final act in self by drinking the liquid said it is that would end his life but the next step in the progression of his disease could be the lost the ability to swallow" "acute kicked at risk because that's that's really choosing to be tortured rather than children this journey ended things starts next for them few drinks with it's a terrible at football you have got tired of living contracted the disease but i've got tired of that" "and i still enjoy it had nothing to make i'd like to continue but the thing is that they're really cute retired cucumber simply to which freeware" "cincinnati's two to five years uh... much longer but with the rapid progression of his own illness he feared he might soon be totally paralyzed edvel artistic which read or like most people ever peaceful death that's fine for" "most people qualified with those who test what might look peaceful from the outside does not necessarily reflect the internal mental state dot the person let's face it would you completely paralyzed can't talk tickles your eyes confirms your arms" "cutting that somebody to use the spring they look at you paid your still good usually we associate suffered with people camera later are great now just out of there cheopas be peaceful will though it has to have to be peaceful" "this could be a complete material today to get a chance to be camping kristen van i don't like it knowledge creek and investigators assisted suicide since to his diagnosis he found a good week minnelli and dignitaries on the internet took out a membership and" "sent in his medical records his daughter katrina thirty-two ensign eyes and thirty-five had both come to visit him in england after his diagnosis spectrometric right in front of a lot why was there because they didn't put" "but did defund you know that they know what you think that makes it and interests killed mahogany kiss despicable just weeks after hasn't it reduces its marian crane contacted dignitaries and set a date for craig siva sai september twenty six" "having set the date creek decided it would be easier to carry through with his plans if your children were not within at the and i think i was glad i was glad that the decision was made for i didn't really want to have to make decision of what is going to be there" "uh... because part of me would like to attend it imparting the fight well as for me personally hearts" "as they prepare to leave considering consultancy contest decreases talked to one of the two daughters about the purpose of detective expect to to her discussion which they're kinda committing armani because of the somali can be accepted to the program" "or or not they're gay a that you uh... then the who can be assistant the lunches to stop we always knew that we were really loved my sister and i knew that we will strike logos to death" "but we also knew that the love that they had for each other was stronger end my mother always said i don't ever want to move without your father my father said the same thing but money is the problem" "let go of this let's start eating are uh... increased yucaipa blvd both my daughters have known for years that i wouldn't want to leave into a nine not no matter what so it doesn't come as a" "far none at its dot com might be more concrete they have nothing against aids i want you to get what you want goals for anything hope that things will slow down because directions enough spectacular release so we see what you said" "the couple commute is about the meeting the next include with minelli they would have to convince the dignitaries directory to prove their case for a referral to a swiss dr who could write a prescription for their deaths didn't answered previously helped couples commits suicide together" "but they were older and had significant if not life-threatening medical problems georgie situation seems justified but that his age and good health presented a significant challenge complete minelli problem they wouldn't we got mad its and he was all my life" "i love my two daughters but i love him and i don't think i can face life without him since resilience about did meet us we felt what contain edta them so that together the sink voting in this position is also sealed to me to do" "okay uh... will to schools in the all he lied to you but uh... influenced the stinky situation and determines it's not easy to do so i don't want that that you can help if some of the that's been" "for fifty years commission boldly who owns this person thinks who think that those that we can aren't interested why should we say no whose water these injuries street no teaching to police pieces decision often do you need to look" "so anything else you need me to see here well i epic i think most of the details critiquing is but this point you know i'd spend five got two choices paid their actually go through with it or i say you know what's going to be scared right" "great now i a trade i document tiger through with a guy because they've lost at some point so i don't go through with it by choices he sexually to suffer fit to inflict suffering and my family config dot php" "possibly in a way that is considerably more stressful cat painful they've got deaths textfree conduct well gee you know despicable lessons to be what do you think about this power toothbrush do you think four no" "there are people who look at this wednesday no suicide is wrong comes from it you cannot play god to take care of his life well all right fine but you know what this special interest play god if i had lived" "without access to technology chances are going to be dugout would premature babies are born their dividend tents with medical treatment their lives are saved because doctors and nurses proclaimed god they're saying he sexually guns but it was that this person" "would die right now worth fourteen etc were played god and you know the christians never safe we have to stop organ transplants we have to stop saving premature babies we have to let them die total for that it's okay to play god" "fits all the way that might ease w suffering debt for weekend playing god comes out peter the fact that i do know the date principles and sixty makes definite what was previously investment back home there's still the case study" "the only thing you've got just a second right now and five and if i can enjoy what is doing now if i could feel that it is good for that's really only mascot people under the word distinctions" "just the problem pass that's now yet would you like to take and here deficit off sites fernanda" "it's not like" "you know it's just so peaceful here killing touching bases with its i see the plants they're dying i'd like to became a little kid ship there they'll be coming back next spring i've unlikely to" "they've had a pretty good right i think i could take my ballots there exited about canadian" "after news of the disturbing incident in the nearby town georgian davie county has decided to go back to switzerland to see if it could be passed on to regret their wish to die together when they felt the time was right" "the bloody in public double suicide of an elderly couple with health problems was a reminder of complete alternatives to assisted suicide if the doctor turned them down but around one o'clock darmin twenty years one more time she had just finished want to know if they can" "when interest walked away please stay in the senate heaven libyan and started flying feeding himself he thirty representatives suicide it was the latest in a number of some of these incidents experts say are increasing dramatically union aging population packard path" "going to happen crop half-time done on diversity" "for the for the incident with the loads and loads of golf warned the with the new what's questions they want to us that but we are ready although the company says that the supporters including a link the final decision would rest with dr cohn's use pfizer" "who would decide whether or not to write a prescription for the fatal drug before the interview with george and daddy sites that retired seventy five-year-old surgeons study george's medical records and read letters they stand to explain their case" "hiding also follow these because i lost my life one and a half years ago we teach brutal you transform one second to another your own since you mentioned that he's interesting meeting with the company nellie two sites that have been questioned by the police precision he admitted a controversial case" "and he was reluctant to involve himself in another one he quickly dismissed biggest request alright swish it doctor and that reissued trying to get people to pre went in front of dying and not control them how too jump off" "palmetto i think they want to know economy dr to clean the world's of people that i would like to leave whenever they feel eighties where the within get assistance with your own but the does or if unfortunately we cannot" "we will find that the another way uh... the or has begun in my hand but the them out of planning for one year wasn't to go through firing range to get the custom blues others super you polluted" "rival we thought that the there were more than a month in their thinking of persisting but still live there and squeeze love personal restrictions and who could have insisted since i that's the negative press calling the contest clients suicide tourists" "authorities responded by putting pressure on congress to approve only the terminally ill they come back to work that though the report i think the canadians for comparable what they've done uh... that took care of the two of them but this on their own land" "but these uh... that's the only thing removed it doesn't help" "duties before her husband schedule so this is that here each year a preview travel details the statement essentially skills and tuesday well uh... eh just want to sort of uh... miserable check with you you i regardless to" "jerry be estimated time of arrival is there a time if the nineteen fifty parents so that almost eight o'clock in evening okay all added one more question or you can consenting at the time of his death he wanted to listen" "to the first movement at the truth in sentencing to meet with their feet deep player available if we wanted to bring finn musical on it is their injury can you ready for your care at this our a costs safet if somebody wants to settle it" "hardly see the feeling these forecast says that placed you we don't think it's a good reason hiding out think it's a good risk but you know what kits that person's life" "skin distorted pickering granite didn't hear you done in people the" "feels design absence the first at the productions you know it's kinda like the first day of school you don't really know what's going to ask contract with america would have been through things quilted coats helpdesk incidents" "it's very very low is live convicted in the bible student coherently music taking nearly finished that often do something they would not be by choice today other options that instead of the that the other hand i do have" "the adventure of banquet that if there is anything bianco together adventure" "anthony and sit on the twenty th yes just twenty three hours before crates assisted suicide was scheduled to begin despite surprised it didn't ask for a meeting with craig and larry the doctor for just two weeks earlier had flatly turned on the company says request" "to die together proved to be just as to react and decisive with the pricks i've decided to put into the papers that i_d_ theater akka right the recipe to grass good name i have to use for security victim" "he's here might question usually is you know when you dream what east happening has been speaking snotty aas but a sleeping medication executed medication in a very high" "dosage because he has no sense when you want to go to sleep forever back to wake up and this is something you want to be short and if we can as sure you not weight but anymore that's what i can confirm that's what you're" "right here because kovanda beach at any point in time i could trish by nineteen st alike dot to the area goods that will be respected by debbie what president to lose a little self-respect hooked that's my problem based on everything i've heard" "said what i learned company of a fair idea sadly though for what to expect great up to the point where villegas where i guess at which point nobody knows what they'll go on don't just talk" "the dignitaries department in the working class tariq neighborhood arthur bernhard arrives to prepare for craig heaps assisted suicide they attacked the sixty-two year old retired social worker will decrease as calling the man who prepare the food and drug and helping drink it" "i really didn't no match before it occurred i want to know how fast he wouldn't intestinal conveniences really wonderful being spent the weekend human beings field sinking needle asked materials to move to montreal strongly nosey will be" "hold for senior united peace maybe that's why i had a mentally disturbed" "i remember now inquiry confirming colin was frozen nomogram and he was very nice to you lynn he couldn't smoke mom because it took whispering to each and you know and he asked me how develops meet using too messy sound" "and say i'm afraid i'm sorry from fifteen to twenty but had no delays many feet of my recent collision so we sent a very long and winding roads apply to your program it was the last moment of time" "come from leslie already moving into it" "it is a sensation do you make the best you can out of it kalsec refreshed recall cried that occurred in the brief oh united faith they will have to pull off so that you think very strong with us just brief cried indications names" "but by and large you you've been supportive cost might releases and you've always been there for me to talk with did you need and what i'm scared i to talk with you delays because of the computer" "college what lodi talk with you another value learning time physically was good he'd been drinking for me" "at nine forty m on the day it is scheduled to resume creaky which is nice didn't have surprised so he knew he had met incident itself in the day he begins the process that will be personalities to his death" "c" "and with his utilises around international the procedure cooped up first i give you a drink despite his stomach some drops and uh... is the u_s_ strengthen his stomach and what do you think that you have a" "enough time you come away twelve and i want products then you can pick denouncing battle of the questions do you want when you think the last night he committed unusually listened to you just of the ac friendfeed sol estes case officials" "that they can see that you have printed yourself and nobody helped him for because if it's necessary i can hold less carefully his from so you don't mind an excuse me you know you do not know the issues there's not going to take shit" "to cause difficulties for human you're helping b but it's you'll get uh... you use that and you uh... beside him and this time that you want to drink you could tell me incoming compelled time go" "itself no so it doesn't matter if you're going to go through reasonably responded accountant prepared if you're dating for strength" "right cheese which in some places there's a started there but i sure would colombo i dubai i think it is preparing to advocate for that" "statistic ready for the patient should prepare to make up" "stevens if they can get course it hasn't been captures dot all external things sometimes if you drink dese you're going to die" "commission apple juice please music music status alone let alone tactics" "do" "confirmation before the in in" "the the" "alert and" "and" "the the" "man" "the allure the" "sister" "the other server compare notes from the details it's required just whistling i think they're not telephoned the police to notify them of creating great synthesized got their wish does he returns team here at this time interesting to see to that this was prosecuted not on film" "two policemen were a corner an assistant prosecutor sin arrived at the apartment to conduct a ninety minute investigation mary keywords and the dignitaries escorts requesting to determine the creeks suicide have been voluntary the video tape was shown paperwork was reviewed incomplete" "increased body was taken to a crematorium the he would send already painted intense about forty five hundred dollars to cover the constitutes assisted suicide and stupid of his actions back to mary from her hotel unique you're its own two children and other family members than email close friend" "to tell domestic staff if in some ways i feel a bit kato i think it's peak has in the sense that lost influence it as he wants" "and so um... off that said we still had time to talk and we talked a lot so in that way out we probably can work with them maybe in the past the senate to help being uh... life goes on for a div" "mentor that was done and i think it was very sad when that happened i say i feel his presence that some people that would be like the spirit covering or whatever i don't know you know but i know that we had a great time together" "and that he left unit one happy memories felt where he is the spelling of material" "as someone once said he is not completely full as long as well remembers his name i love and best wishes to all of you" "and me them one we're control in on 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