Horrific disease explained after 25-year-old chooses to end her life with voluntary assisted dying

Most of us hope and pray that we get to grow old; that we live out our years in as much happiness as can be obtained and perhaps peacefully slip away in our sleep when the time comes.

Sadly, that doesn’t go for everyone.

If you’re relatively hale and well today then you should be desperately thankful. Tomorrow, after all, is promised to no one, and money, fame, and riches pale in comparison to the simple blessing of being healthy.

The heartbreaking story of 25-year-old Annaliese Holland should be a poignant reminder of that fact. Suffering with a debilitating, incurable medical condition, she revealed recently that she wants to die by voluntary assisted suicide.

Since she was a young child, Annaliese, from Australia, has been in and out of hospitals.

“I’ve been sick since being a child really, I lived in and out of the hospital ever since I went in for nine months,” she told news.com.au.

“It actually took until I transitioned to the adult hospital that we found the diagnosis, and it came back that I did have this autoimmune disease that was causing it all along.”Continue reading…