You South Africa (Digital)

You South Africa (Digital)

1 Issue, 30 November 2023

‘IT’S MY TIME TO GO’

In this exclusive interview Carol de Swardt tells us why, after years of agony, she will soon be going to an assisted-suicide clinic where doctors will help her to die
‘IT’S MY TIME TO GO’
THE woman in the photos taken years ago exudes energy and a love of life. It’s clear Carol de Swardt was at her happiest in shorts and a T-shirt, soaking up the sun and having fun in the great outdoors. In one picture she’s in the back of a bakkie holding a fishing rod. In another she stands near the ocean, a beer in her hand. “That woman is still here inside me. That’s what makes it so bad,” Carol says. The life she used to love is a thing of the past. Since having her right leg amputated, she’s been confined to a wheelchair and seldom goes to the beach. In fact, she’s in so much pain she hardly goes anywhere. “I’m a living corpse,” she tells us. “My left leg…
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