Imagine
going from this to this. Nearly 8 years ago, 52-year-old Chantal Sebire was
diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that hurled into her nasal cavity causing
her nose to swell, one of her eyes to come out of its sockets and making her
life a living nightmare.
"It is not
only the face", she says, "some of my bones are eaten into. I don’t have any
upper and lower jaws".
Wednesday, Sebire
was found dead in her apartment in Eastern France . That was just two days after
a French court rejected her plea for a lethal dose of barbiturates that could
be administered in a doctor-assisted suicide. "We are sad", this neighbor says, "because
she left without getting what she was asking for".
Sebire’s case
captured the public’s attention when the French press published before-and-after
pictures that brought her suffering into sharper focus.
Euthanasia
is legal in some European countries, but not in France. Even so, the debate
goes on. It’s not clear yet how she died, but she left behind three children
ranging in age from 13 to 29.
Her lawyer
says the illness left her blind with no sense of smell or taste and the
neighbour says she didn’t want to live any more in the state she was in.
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