Fri Oct 28, 2022 – 1:47 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – I have written about the euthanasia death of Alan Nichols before, in fact I worked with the Nichols family in 2019; nonetheless, Flo Read wrote an excellent article about Alan Nichols that was published by UnHerd on October 18, 2022.
Read interviewed Gary Nichols, Alan’s brother. Alan was not sick or dying but he was depressed when he asked to be killed in 2019 at the Chilliwack General Hospital.
Read told Alan’s story:
As a child, Alan Nichols had suffered complications from surgery which affected his mobility on one side and left him with hearing loss. Still, he was living independently before his death. Physically, Gary says, his brother had been doing much better: ‘He was being treated for absolutely nothing, no illness.’ But Alan’s mental health was volatile. ‘He would go through stages where life was good and then he’d hit a stage for a while, for a month or two, where he didn’t feel like living.’ He was prone to paranoia and reacted badly to change: if Gary was getting ready to leave, Alan might say: ‘Are you going to leave me home
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