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Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort ends life by euthanasia
Updated On: 23 October, 2019 09:05 AM IST | | AFP
Vervoort suffered a degenerative muscle disease that caused constant pain, paralysis in her legs and left her barely able to sleep, and gradually her life became torture
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In this file photo taken on September 10, 2016 Belgium's Marieke Vervoort reacts on the podium after receiving the silver medal for the women's 400 m (T52) of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro
Belgian Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort ended her life through euthanasia at the age of 40 on Tuesday, Belgian media reported.
Euthanasia is legal in Belgium and the spiky-haired athlete announced her intentions after the Rio Games in 2016 to follow that path if her degenerative condition worsened her suffering. But she said at the time that sport had given her a reason to keep living.
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