She will end her life through SA’s euthanasia lawsA young woman who is unable to move and battles ‘excruciating’ pain from a rare condition will use euthanasia laws to end her own life.Lily Thai, 23, will die on Wednesday via South Australia’s voluntary assisted dying laws, which the state enacted back in January.
Lily, believed to be one of the youngest Australians to legally take their own lives has been diagnosed with auto-immune autonomic ganglionopathy.That is a condition where a person’s body attacks their own nervous system, leaving her bedridden, unable to move and in a constant state of agony.
Lily is receiving palliative care at Flinders Medical Centre’s Laurel Hospice in Adelaide’s south and signed the paperwork last week confirming her decision.
‘I decided that pain was so severe it wasn’t worth it, and I just wanted to take it into my own hands,’ she told Adelaide’s The Advertiser newspaper.Lily has been preparing herself for the difficult moment and she has been busy getting her affairs in order.
Healthcare staff granted one of her final wishes to visit a beach and transported the 23-year-old in the back of an ambulance to the coastline. Lily has been battling health issues since she was a teenager, with a doctor first diagnosing her with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome at 17.
According to the Advertiser, a year later, she caught an upper respiratory infection that left her unable to walk, use her bowels or eat or drink without getting sick.She received treatment for a spinal fluid.
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