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Sharon Osbourne says she and Ozzy have an assisted suicide pact set in place

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Published 19:53 12 Oct 2023 GMT+1

Sharon Osbourne says she and Ozzy have an assisted suicide pact set in place

Sharon Osbourne reconfirmed on her podcast that she and her husband Ozzy Osbourne have an assisted suicide pact in place.

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

Sharon Osbourne confirmed that she and husband Ozzy Osbourne still have their suicide pact plan in place in the event they become terminally ill.

Speaking on the latest episode of The Osbourne Podcast, which features the married couple as well as their children Jack and Kelly Osbourne, the family discussed the assisted suicide agreement.

Jack began by reflecting on news stories that have circulated over the years about his parents’ plans to go to Switzerland for assisted suicide in the event either one of them gets a disease like Alzheimers.

Sharon had first voiced these plans to the public back in 2007. Speaking to the Daily Mirror she told the publication she and her husband '100 percent believes in euthanasia'.

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She added: “[We] have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains.

"If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer's, that's it - we'd be off."

On the podcast episode, Jack asked Sharon whether that still was the plan.

The Osbourne family discussed Sharon and Ozzy's assisted suicide pact on their podcast.
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The 71-year-old replied: "Do you think that we’re gonna suffer?"

Jack argued that 'we already [are] all suffering', but Sharon was having none of it.

“Yes, we all are, but I don’t want it to actually hurt, as well. Mental suffering is enough pain without physical. So if you’ve got mental and physical, see ya,” his mother answered.

Sharon’s daughter Kelly weighed in and asked whether her parents would consider changing their plans if they could survive their ailment.

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Sharon previously said that the assisted suicide pact agreement came after her father’s death in 2007.
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“Yeah, what if you survived and you can’t wipe your own ass, you’re pissing everywhere, sh**ting, can’t eat,” Sharon replied.

Sharon previously explained the assisted suicide pact agreement came after her father’s death.

“I saw my father suffer from [Alzheimer's] the day he came back into my life in 2002 to the day he died in July [2007]. There's no way I could go through what he did, or put my kids through that,” Sharon said in 2007.

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"At least with something like cancer you can communicate, say how you feel and explain why your body hurts.

"But my father deteriorated at such a rapid speed he became a shell of himself - dribbling, wearing a diaper and tied into a wheelchair because he didn't realize he could no longer walk.”

Sharon said at the first sign of dementia she would want to be “put out of her[misery].
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Sharon added that due to the hereditary nature of diseases like dementia, at the first sign of it she would want to be 'put out of [her misery]'.

In 2014, while also speaking to the Daily Mirror, Ozzy explained that he and his wife’s assisted suicide pact had expanded to now include any 'life threatening condition' as well as dementia.

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If you have been affected by the issues in this article, you can call the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The Lifeline provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, across the United States.

Call or text 988 to connect with a trained crisis counselor. Support is also available via live chat at 988lifeline.org

Featured Image Credit: M. Caulfield/WireImage / Dave Hogan/Getty Images

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Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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