In less than a year, Anne Gabrielides has lost her ability to speak and breathe comfortably and can no longer control her hands.
Soon, the mother-of-three from the Blue Mountains will be confined to a wheelchair, and within another year likely won’t be here at all.
Anne is dying. The 53-year-old has terminal, creeping motor neurone disease and she’s terrified.
“I’m becoming trapped inside my own body, with the same intellect, but unable to speak, eat, clean myself or move,” she says.
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Thank you for bringing this subject up, and I still cannot understand why it is not an option considered by politician when every single poll says it is a choice the majority of people would like to make for themselves and their lives.
Signed. I would hate to see any one I love suffer a disease like this and THEN also be denied the right to die peacefully when they have had enough. I've worked with people with MND and it is a truly cruel condition.