Name changed for this but regular MN user.
I have read and cannot stop thinking about the event rider Caroline March who sadly had a bad riding accident in 22 which resulted to her breaking two vertebrae in her spine, losing the use of her legs and this week has died by assisted suicide, due to the effects of her injuries.
She left with a very moving letter/post (which is circulating round most newspapers forums and isn’t hard to find) which explains why mentally and emotionally she couldn’t go on.
I can’t really articulate what I feel about this, just that I haven’t stopped thinking about her and how she came to the choice she did and while I support assisted dying and can’t even imagine what a horrific injury this must have been to come to terms with, I was (possibly naively) shocked that someone who wasn’t terminally ill or with a degenerative condition could end their life this way.
I’ve read many say that it was such a frank and brave thing to admit and do and there is an element of braveness to it, certainly her letter definitely encapsulates her fierceness of character but I guess I’m on the fence to where the line is for assisted dying and I’m finding her end choice hard to process…
Has anyone else had mixed feelings on this?