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Kessler TwinsAlice and Ellen Kessler, two girls from post-war Germany.Famous in the 1950s and 1960s as singers, dancers and actors, they worked with Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra and even represented Germany at the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest. Having spent their entire lives together, at the age of 89, they returned to stardom posthumously.They asked for assisted suicide to die together.This is a decision that will have a huge impact on German social networks.

Caritas advised Germany not to romanticize this "suicide" and not to use it to promote a "deader on demand" death.Caritas' support services, such as the anonymous, free 24-hour Crisis Service or its free counseling service for those contemplating suicide, have increased significantly since the release of the news.Despite an increase in the number of staff available for these services in the last 48 hours, it is feared that the number of suicides will increase due to widespread media coverage.

"Every time famous people take their own lives and it is widely reported in the press, there is a noticeable increase in the number of suicides," said Eva Velskoop-Deffaa, president of Caritas, adding that in this case information is spread that presents the event as "idealized and like a soap opera."realizing that this is clearly a codependent relationship.”Velskoop-Deffaa regrets that what should be seen as an expression of hopelessness and despair, against which the social environment could do something, but is hardly in doubt, is presented "as a sovereign decision of strong women".

The case sparked a new and intense social debate about assisted suicide.The Federal Constitutional Court overturned the ban on assisted suicide in February 2020 and formulated a series of requirements for the use of euthanasia.However, to date there is no clear legal regulation.The Constitutional Court left the decision to enact a new law in the hands of the legislature, and two legislative initiatives failed to gain a majority in the Bundestag.

Loopholes in German law

There are currently no new legislative plans, but even Athena supporters like former Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.It is now calling for regulations that would prevent criteria-based, criterion-based, criterion-based, criterion-based, criterion-based, criterion-based, criterion-based, criterion-based, criterion-based, criterion-basedCriteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria based on criteria.The Kessler sisters do not have serious health problems, regardless of their age, and their goal is to avoid divorce, unfounded fears."I think we need a legal framework for suicidal ideation. The current situation allows for suicidal ideation without unreasonable justification," said the Social Democrat Social Democrat politician.The former minister admitted that "at the moment there is no certainty that people following this path do not suffer from the mental illness that characterizes suicide-assisted offerings, so he needs a line of limitation."

Grandnn Gröthe, the former health minister from the Christian Democratic Union (CDE), shouted that deaths will not be allowed.” He spoke of the need to increase family support as a dignified way for people with serious illnesses and called for laws against suicide, especially if it is a for-profit organization.

The anger of the suicide on social networks, the anger of many German media about the case editorial about the case about the case to the radicalism, the leading newspaper Brips "this is not an example", the public television channel ZDF emphasized the legal loophole and said that Perssler's case "illuminates a controversial issue".The law of usage is sufficient to prevent abuse.

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