Overview

• Corinne Gregory Sharpe has spoken publicly for the first time about helping her parents, Eva and Druse Neumann, use medical aid in dying in 2021.
• The couple chose Friday, August 13, 2021, took prescribed lethal medication at home, and died within the hour while holding hands.
• Eva pursued MAID after a 2018 aortic stenosis diagnosis and a 2021 fall that led to hospitalization, rehab, and entry into hospice.
• Doctors later deemed Druse eligible due to prior mini-strokes and the risk of further incapacitating events, allowing the pair to proceed together.
• Washington’s Death with Dignity Act requires patients to self-administer the drugs, a key difference from euthanasia, and the family’s account is being cited in current policy discussions, including recent debate in the UK House of Lords.