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Mum suffering rare disease pleads for right to die
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
February 27, 2008 12:00am
A MOTHER of three suffering from a disfiguring, incurable disease and battling incredible pain has pleaded for the right to die by euthanasia.
The 52-year-old French woman has launched today an impassioned appeal to the media and President Nicolas Sarkozy seeking the right to euthanasia.
Chantal Sebire, a former school teacher, learnt in 2002 that she had developed an esthesioneuroblastoma, an uncommon malignant tumour in the nasal cavity, which has led to "atrocious" suffering, according to her.
Ms Sebire told AFP that she suffered from a very rare disease called esthesioneuroblastoma, which attacks the nasal cavity.
It had left her blind and had robbed her of almost all other senses, leaving her in terrible pain.
"In 2000, I lost my sense of smell and taste, and then the tumour evolved and ate into my jaws, before attacking the eye socket. I lost my sight in October last year," she said.
The disease caused "atrocious bouts of pain that can last up to four hours at a time".
"In 2000, I lost the sense of smell and taste ... and I lost my sight in October 2007," she said.
"One would not allow an animal to go through what I have endured," she said in a plea aired on France 2 television and urged President Nicolas Sarkozy to pay heed to her request.
Sebire pleaded for the right to "depart peacefully," saying only two neurosurgeons had agreed to see her and then told her that the rare condition was incurable.
Only 200 cases of the disease have been recorded worldwide in two decades, she said.
French law does not allow for euthanasia.
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
February 27, 2008 12:00am
A MOTHER of three suffering from a disfiguring, incurable disease and battling incredible pain has pleaded for the right to die by euthanasia.
The 52-year-old French woman has launched today an impassioned appeal to the media and President Nicolas Sarkozy seeking the right to euthanasia.
Chantal Sebire, a former school teacher, learnt in 2002 that she had developed an esthesioneuroblastoma, an uncommon malignant tumour in the nasal cavity, which has led to "atrocious" suffering, according to her.
Ms Sebire told AFP that she suffered from a very rare disease called esthesioneuroblastoma, which attacks the nasal cavity.
It had left her blind and had robbed her of almost all other senses, leaving her in terrible pain.
"In 2000, I lost my sense of smell and taste, and then the tumour evolved and ate into my jaws, before attacking the eye socket. I lost my sight in October last year," she said.
The disease caused "atrocious bouts of pain that can last up to four hours at a time".
"In 2000, I lost the sense of smell and taste ... and I lost my sight in October 2007," she said.
"One would not allow an animal to go through what I have endured," she said in a plea aired on France 2 television and urged President Nicolas Sarkozy to pay heed to her request.
Sebire pleaded for the right to "depart peacefully," saying only two neurosurgeons had agreed to see her and then told her that the rare condition was incurable.
Only 200 cases of the disease have been recorded worldwide in two decades, she said.
French law does not allow for euthanasia.
