When did double suicides become trendy?

When a Brussels couple revealed that they were planning to die together in the world’s first “couple” euthanasia in 2014, despite not being terminally ill, the announcement was met with shock. 89-year-old Francis and 86-year-old Anne said their decision was driven by a fear of loneliness – all three of their adult children stated that they would be unable to care for their parents and supported their decision to be euthanized. Since then, the phenomenon of couples dying together by euthanasia or assisted suicide has rapidly grown, and the media endorse it. The strategy is obvious: to propagandize the public into accepting, if not celebrating, our “new normal,” in which elderly couples are put down like household pets, doctors dispense lethal injections that remain illegal for convicted murderers, and the value of life is dictated by its subjective “quality.”