By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The following letter was sent to EPC from a woman in Honduras who was responding to a previous article concerning people with Anorexia dying by assisted suicide based on Anorexia being falsely defined as a terminal illness.

I couldn’t sleep. I was really skinny in 2004.

I was daddy’s little girl whom I lived with when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer. I suffered anorexia since 2004 without knowing that when dad was diagnosed with stomach cancer, I almost died. I couldn’t work. I didn’t eat. I tried and tried, but mom and I were focused on my father’s illness.

My dad passed away on September 3rd, 2007, and I was really skinny, I didn’t want to eat not exactly (that I didn’t want to eat, I wasn’t able to eat and got seriously depressed).

Fortunately, a Medical Doctor, an Internist of Tegucigalpa capital city of my hometown, Honduras Central America where I live, learned of my problem of Anorexia. What would I do without him and the Psychiatric treatment from another doctor, again and again what would I do without him?

Both helped me out when I suffered Anorexia and I can’t thank them enough for the way they treated me with ethics and humanity. I will always be grateful for them.

Now I work with elderly people and feel really happy with my job position and I am totally recovered of Anorexia. Thanks be to God and the physicians mentioned above!

Sincerely,

Eunice Lozano Oqueli from my hometown, Honduras Central America.

Editor’s note. This appeared on Mr. Schadenberg’s blog and is reposted with permission.