Mulher crítica do suicídio assistido do seu marido
MERCATORNET 13.11.2018 The journalist wife of a Sky News journalist has written a memoir chronicling her reaction to her husband’s one-way trip to a Swiss suicide clinic. Deborah Binner is bitterly critical of the decision her spouse Simon made to seek assisted suicide after being stricken with a fast-moving form of motor neurone disease. She writes from an unusual perspective in her book Yet Here I Am , because she had nursed her 18-year-old daughter Chloë who died of cancer three years earlier. She observed that the two deaths were very different . After her daughter’s death, she found that: “... a certain closure slowly arose in me; I knew I had left no stone unturned in an almighty battle to save her. And in the end, her death was soft, gentle, supported and at home. When she lay dying, I sat with her in my arms, stroking her little head with tiny tufts of hair. “She told me she was happy. Unbelievably, for that moment, I was happy too. I touched...