Word: hink
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...many terminally ill patients and their families, it's having the option that counts. When Annemie Douwes Dekker's husband Hink was first told he had multiple sclerosis in 1978, his family doctor agreed to discuss the possibilities of euthanasia if and when the time came. "That was a great help to us," Annemie recalled. Five years later Hink, then 50, had been in a nursing home for a year and was deteriorating rapidly, losing his ability to communicate and control bodily functions. Yet, says his widow, now 62 and living in Haarlem, "he had a strong heart; he could...
...When Hink first asked to be put to death, the doctors refused, but after a few more months and more requests, Douwes Dekker remembers, "They said, 'Your husband is ready for it.'" That weekend he came home from the nursing home to be with the family, and the doctor administered the poison. "He just faded away," she says. "I'm convinced we did the right thing. He died a good death...