Céline Corsius, a 32-year-old from the Netherlands, died through euthanasia on September 18th after suffering with ME for 22 years. For the last seven years, she was confined to her bed, lying in the dark. Even so, her health situation continued to deteriorate. She was cared for by her parents, Iselle and Lou Corsius. Below I am posting translations of the eulogies given by Iselle, Lou and Celine’s brother Philip at a memorial service held yesterday—September 30th. A recording of the event will be viewable for a month at
this link, with this viewer code: A3AA4367.
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Iselle Corsius
Dear friends and family,
We would like to welcome you to this funeral, including all online participants.
First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for the overwhelming support that Céline and we have received in recent months. We had many messages, cards, letters, flowers and gifts: heart-warming and very valuable to us.
The fact that people acknowledged her health situation and her euthanasia decision was very important to Céline.
In a moment I will tell Céline’s life story.
Lou will discuss how the disease ME is viewed in the Netherlands and what the consequences have been for Céline.
Philip will bring back fond memories of Céline.
Céline has selected all the music for this occasion. We will introduce the songs briefly and 4 recordings of Céline’s own music performances will be presented................
