Overview
- Alice and Ellen Kessler died on 17 November at their home in Grünwald near Munich, with police confirming a deployment but giving no further details.
- The right-to-die group DGHS confirmed an assisted suicide, saying the twins had long planned the step, chose the date themselves, and were accompanied by a jurist and a physician.
- Media reports said investigators found no indications of external involvement.
- The sisters revised their will in 2023 to divide their estate among several charities, and they had recorded a wish to be interred together in one urn.
- Germany still lacks a settled regulatory framework for assisted suicide after a 2020 court ruling struck down a key ban, a backdrop noted in coverage of the case.