
By Antonis Glykis and Christina Avgousti
“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life,” wrote Shakespeare some 400 or so years ago in one of the most sombre love stories ever written. What if it is not only the star-crossed lovers that choose to end their life together? The controversial practice of euthanasia, long a subject of heated ethical debate, has taken on a new, more intimate face, that of