Elderly couple to die together by assisted suicide even though they are not ill

Francis, 89, and Anne, 86 are planning to die in first 'couple' euthanasia 

The pair from Brussels fear loneliness if the other one dies first

They say they have the full support of their three adult children

Francis has received treatment for prostate cancer for the past 20 years

An elderly husband and wife have announced their plans to die in the world's first 'couple' euthanasia - despite neither of them being terminally ill.

Instead the pair fear loneliness if the other one dies first from natural causes.

Identified only by their first names, Francis, 89, and Anne, 86, they have the support of their three adult children who say they would be unable to care for either parent if they became widowed.

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Craig Ewert, 59, whose death in an assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic was broadcasted on television

The children have even gone so far as to find a practitioner willing to carry out the double killings on the grounds that the couple's mental anguish constituted the unbearable suffering needed to legally justify euthanasia.

The couple, from Brussels, are receiving regular medical treatment for age-related ailments.

Francis has received treatment for prostate cancer for 20 years and is unable to spend a day without morphine and Anne is partially blind and almost totally deaf.

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