Healthy Father Euthanized Alongside Wife in Washington State

A healthy man has been euthanized alongside his terminally ill wife under Washington State’s liberal “assisted suicide” laws.

Druse Neumann was killed via lethal medication after his daughter convinced him it would be “romantic” to join his wife Eva in a double assisted suicide.

Corinne Gregory Sharpe has admitted she persuaded her elderly father, who was not terminally ill, to undergo euthanasia alongside her mother, who was seriously ill.

The couple was killed under Washington’s Death with Dignity Act, which went into effect in 2008.

The law allows state residents with terminal illnesses to die with lethal doses of drugs.

The news is raising new concerns about how euthanasia is being normalized and even romanticized in American culture.

Amazingly, the story is being glorified by the corporate media.

Sharpe detailed the ordeal in an interview with People Magazine, explaining how her 92-year-old mother, diagnosed with aortic stenosis, was eventually put forward for assisted suicide.

Her father, who had suffered a prior stroke but was not terminal, grew fearful of living alone without his wife.

Sharpe said she convinced him to join his wife in dying, describing the plan as a “solution.”

“I had a very interesting, serious heart-to-heart conversation with him one evening after my mom had gone to bed,” Sharpe recalled.

“And he was just panicked like, ‘What happens to me if she goes first?’

“That’s always been a concern of his.

“He couldn’t see a scenario where he would want to continue if mom was gone.”

Sharpe admitted her father was “always afraid of dying.

“But I think he was more afraid of being left alone.

“He was like, ‘Well, if she’s gonna go and I have the option to go at the same time, then I’m getting on that horse.’

“So I was like, look, we’ll figure something out.”

Despite not being terminal, Sharpe was able to get her father approved for assisted suicide.

She described it as “a race” to have her dad euthanized before his health declined.

A Chilling “Final Toast”

Sharpe described spending her parents’ last weeks together hosting dinners, cooking favorite meals, and reminiscing.

When the lethal drugs arrived, she even took a selfie with the deliveryman and later joked about choosing Friday the 13th as the date of death.

“The counselors prepared the cocktail,” Sharpe told People.

“We sat around and shared some private moments together.

“They got to sit in their own bed and hold hands with each other and talk before they were able to take the meds.

“We put music on and they took the cocktail.

“Then we poured a glass of wine, and we had a final toast.

“About 10 minutes after they drank it, they went to sleep.”

Her parents died on August 13, 2021.

The Reality Behind the “Romance”

While the media often portrays couple-assisted suicides as touching or dignified, medical experts warn that the reality is often far different.

Dr. Joel Zivot, an anesthesiology professor at Emory School of Medicine who has studied euthanasia and executions, explained the grim reality of the drugs used.

“[F]or both euthanasia and executions, paralytic drugs are used,” he wrote in The Spectator.

“These drugs, given in high enough doses, mean that a patient cannot move a muscle, cannot express any outward or visible sign of pain.

“But that doesn’t mean that he or she is free from suffering.”

He added: “People who want to die deserve to know that they may end up drowning, not just falling asleep.”

A 2021 study published in Anesthesia similarly found that many patients who underwent assisted suicide endured prolonged, painful deaths.

Some took over 30 hours to die; others lingered for a week.

Reports from trial drug cocktails included patients screaming in pain as their throats and mouths burned.

The same drugs deemed too inhumane for use in lethal injections have now been repurposed for assisted suicide.

Sharpe described her parents’ deaths as serene, but the broader reality of euthanasia is far more troubling.

What once was considered tragic is now being reframed as romantic and noble.

Yet suicide, critics note, is neither dignified nor peaceful.

When facilitated by the state, it risks turning vulnerable people into victims of a cultural movement that prizes “dying with dignity” over protecting life.

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