Elderly couple to die together by assisted suicide
Anne, 86, and her husband Francis, 89, decided that life in a care home was not an option because of their fear they would end up bedridden without the strength to insist on euthanasia. Photo is taken from the Daily Mail Online.
An elderly husband and wife have announced their plans to die in the world's first 'couple' euthanasia - despite neither of them being terminally ill, reports the Daily Mail Online.
Instead the pair fear loneliness if the other one dies first from natural causes.
Identified only by their first names, Francis, 89, and Anne, 86, they have the support of their three adult children who say they would be unable to care for either parent if they became widowed.
The children have even gone so far as to find a practitioner willing to carry out the double killi...
