A young South Australian woman used the state’s rules on voluntary assisted dying to end her life. Despite being in “excruciating pain” and having a fatal illness, Lily Thai, 23, “passed away peacefully” on Wednesday.
According to an obituary in The Advertiser, Thai passed away at the Laurel Hospice in the Flinders Medical Centre.
Six years after Thai was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which makes the sufferers’ joints floppy and their skin delicate and puts them in danger of serious harm. She could no longer move, use her bowels, eat, or drink without being sick a year later.
She learned that an autoimmune condition called Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy was causing her organs to fail.
According to her interview with the local press, “I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve lost control of everything else in my life, and I’ve been relying on my dad’s caregiving responsibilities, including the most private tasks, were for me.”
Obituary:
The family has announced that a funeral will be held at Centennial Park Cemetery on Thursday.
About Lily Thai:
Before she passed away on Wednesday, Lily Thai’s story touched thousands nationwide. She had long wished for the ability to end her life gracefully after a grueling fight with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
She declared last week that she wanted to spend her final days surrounded by loved ones.
“I realized that I couldn’t have any more anesthesia, so I (couldn’t) have any more feeding tube adjustments or surgeries,” she told the Adelaide Advertiser.
I decided that the agony wasn’t worth it since it was so intense, and I just wanted to take matters into my own hands.
She spent her last days at the Flinders Medical Centre, where she claimed he slept most of them in “excruciating pain.”
After receiving life-ending drugs through IV, she recently signed paperwork and invoked South Australia’s voluntary assisted dying rules, which became law in January.
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