‘For the first time, I had hope’

When Lynette Blackwell lost heart and thought she would never be free from pain, comfort came in an unexpected form

When my husband found out I planned to go to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland to end my life, understandably he was shocked and extremely distressed. We had a 12-year-old son, who still very much needed his mum, and you’re probably wondering why I was in such a desperate state that I was prepared to leave him. This was 2009, and for the previous four years I’d been experiencing horrendous pain in my hip following a car accident. Several operations had failed to give me respite and, quite honestly, the thought of living in such pain for the next 30 to 40 years was unbearable. But I realised I couldn’t leave my young son and, in my mind, I decided I’d wait until he was old enough to at least…

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Spirit & Destiny (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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