Imagine going from this to this. Nearly 8 years ago, 52-year-old Chantal Sebire was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that hurled into her nasal cavity causing her nose to swell, one of her eyes to come out of its sockets and making her life a living nightmare.
"It is not only the face", she says, "some of my bones are eaten into. I don’t have any upper and lower jaws".
Wednesday, Sebire was found dead in her apartment in Eastern France . That was just two days after a French court rejected her plea for a lethal dose of barbiturates that could be administered in a doctor-assisted suicide. "We are sad", this neighbor says, "because she left without getting what she was asking for".
Sebire’s case captured the public’s attention when the French press published before-and-after pictures that brought her suffering into sharper focus.
Euthanasia is legal in some European countries, but not in France. Even so, the debate goes on. It’s not clear yet how she died, but she left behind three children ranging in age from 13 to 29.
Her lawyer says the illness left her blind with no sense of smell or taste and the neighbour says she didn’t want to live any more in the state she was in.
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