Following the loss of her father earlier this year, Sharon Osbourne has made her own end-of-life plans, reports MSNBC.com.
She and husband Ozzy have decided to choose their own ends should a mentally degenerative disease afflict either of them.
”I saw my father suffer from the day he came back into my life in 2002 to the day he died in July,” she said. “There’s no way I could go through what he did or put my kids through that.”
Considering it the ”final gift of love to our kids,” the couple have already contacted their lawyers to see to it that their wishes are respected.
“Ozzy and I have absolutely come to the same decision. We believe 100 percent in euthanasia so have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains. If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer’s, that’s it — we’d be off. We gathered the kids around the kitchen table, told them our wishes, and they’ve all agreed to go with it.”
Both are excellently positioned as rude truth-tellers in a community about as distant as can be conceived from the typical for this issue. Too bad they didn’t come out and endorse the California Compassionate Choices Act when it would have helped. Swissers are charming in their own way – but at what cost? A $25,000 private jet flight, and then tens of thousands of dollars to die probably alone and far from home. Actually, this seems the cowardly way out, an exit only the wealthy can choose.
What do you think sparked this comment? Clearly Ozzy has some cognitive dysfunction, but what a workhorse – touring for ages!