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The writer describes her 74-year-old mother, who had no terminal diagnosis, obtaining an assisted death through Pegasos in Basel after grief over her partner's death and a sense of being tired of life. It is also a memoir of a fraught mother-daughter history that the daughter sees as tied to the decision.
- Pegasos will help elderly people with no terminal illness who say they are tired of life, unlike the U.S. and Canadian programs, which require a terminal or incurable diagnosis.
- The mother's stated reasons were a cataract, foot pain, a pacemaker, dread of becoming a burden, and disgust at the state of the world, not a medical crisis.
- The daughter learned of the plan by accident in June 2022 and was left unsure her mother would follow through, given a long history of abandoned projects and threats she didn't keep.