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40-year-old Paralympic champ dies by euthanasia after years of spinal disease pain
By Meaghan Wray Global News
Posted October 23, 2019 12:57 pm
Decorated Paralympian Marieke Vervoort ended her life on Tuesday in her native Belgium after signing euthanasia papers more than a decade ago. She was 40.
Her death was confirmed in a statement from the City of Diest.
The athlete — who lived with severe pain from an incurable degenerative spinal disease — won gold and silver medals in wheelchair racing at the 2012 London Paralympics and collected two more medals in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
In an interview at the Paralympics in Rio attended by Associated Press, Vervoort described living with the pain of her condition...
40-year-old Paralympic champ dies by euthanasia after years of spinal disease pain
By Meaghan Wray Global News
Posted October 23, 2019 12:57 pm
Decorated Paralympian Marieke Vervoort ended her life on Tuesday in her native Belgium after signing euthanasia papers more than a decade ago. She was 40.
Her death was confirmed in a statement from the City of Diest.
The athlete — who lived with severe pain from an incurable degenerative spinal disease — won gold and silver medals in wheelchair racing at the 2012 London Paralympics and collected two more medals in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
In an interview at the Paralympics in Rio attended by Associated Press, Vervoort described living with the pain of her condition...