{"id":14815,"date":"2024-03-19T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/democrat-consultant-to-die-by-assisted-suicide-thursday\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:11:00","slug":"democrat-consultant-to-die-by-assisted-suicide-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/democrat-consultant-to-die-by-assisted-suicide-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Consultant to Die By Assisted Suicide Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Longtime Democrat consultant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/03\/16\/hal-malchow-scheduled-death-democrats-00147362\">Hal Malchow<\/a>\u00a0will reportedly end his life through assisted suicide in Switzerland on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Malchow, who was at the forefront of Al Gore\u2019s successful Senate campaign, has chosen to end his life after being diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He opted to die in Switzerland because current laws in the United States only allow euthanasia if a patient only has months to live.<\/p>\n<p>Malchow will travel to Zurich, Switzerland, with his family, where he will have two days to go sightseeing before being administered a fatal dose by a nurse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a sense, Hal Malchow has been planning for this day ever since 1987, when a genetic marker test revealed he was likely to develop Alzheimer\u2019s. At the time, he was barely 35 years old, a hustling political operative who had recently come off managing Al Gore\u2019s first Senate campaign while overcome with worry about his mother\u2019s early descent into dementia,\u201d Politico reported. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Around her 50th birthday, she was discovered wandering lost in a parking lot in the Mississippi town where she had lived her whole life.) After his mother\u2019s untimely death, in 1990, Malchow was intent on never letting himself endure the same thing. If he showed symptoms for Alzheimer\u2019s, Malchow resolved at the time, he would take his life before he became too diminished \u2014 and became a burden to those around him,\u201d the outlet continued.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is an excellent piece on my Dad Hal Malchow<\/p>\n<p>Hal was a innovator, philanthropist, a great American, and a loving father. <\/p>\n<p>I was and for now still am extremely lucky to have him be such a big part of my life and shape the man I am today in countless ways. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BK7cndGssd\">https:\/\/t.co\/BK7cndGssd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Malchow (@euroballchow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/euroballchow\/status\/1769201653742289133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>                    <!--begin code --><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--end code --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/democrat-consultant-to-die-by-assisted-suicide-thursday\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Democrat consultant\u00a0Hal Malchow\u00a0will reportedly end his life through assisted suicide in Switzerland on Thursday. Malchow, who was at the forefront of Al Gore\u2019s successful Senate campaign, has chosen to end his life after being diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s in 2019. 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