Video introduction by Marcela Fonseca
The following video is about Craig Ewert a 59 retired american teacher that travel to Switzerland to do not prolong a painful agony and end it with an assisted suicide or euthanasia. He suffers ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is a form of motor caused by the degeneration of neuronst. The disorder is characterized by rapidly progressive weakness, muscle atrophy and respiratory compromise. Sensory function generally is spared, as is autonomic, and oculomotor activity. ALS is a progresive, faltal, neurodegenrative disease with most affected patients dying of respiratory compromise and pneumonia after 2 to 3 years. Because the disease have been rapidly progressive he start thinking in euthanasia.
Mary and Craig have been married for 38 years. He is a professor of computer science and she has a Phd in Law and they took the decission together.
Assited suicide is legal in Switzerland, Belgium and the State of Oregon in the United States but only in Switzerland is legal for foreigners. That´s why they travel to this country for the assited suicide.
