Sharon Osbourne has stirred up social media with a revelation that she and her husband Ozzy still maintain an agreement for assisted suicide. In her 2007 memoir, Survivor: My Story – The Next Chapter, the talk show host, 71, previously disclosed that if one of them developed dementia, the couple would seek help from Dignitas, a Swiss physician-assisted suicide organization.
This topic resurfaced in a recent episode of The Osbournes Podcast, which is run by Sharon and Ozzy, 74, as well as their daughter Kelly, and son Jack. During the family’s chat, Jack, 37, asked Sharon and Ozzy if euthanasia would still be a “plan” for them one day in the future. “Do you think that we’re gonna suffer?” Sharon said with a chuckle.
Sharon Osbourne Opens Up About Her And Husband Ozzy's Euthanasia Pact In New Podcast Episode
Jack then asked his mom: "Aren’t we already all suffering?" She replied: "Yes, we all are, but I don’t want it to actually hurt, as well." She went on: "Mental suffering is enough pain without physical. So if you’ve got mental and physical, see ya."
Kelly, 38, then asked Sharon: "But what if you could survive?" The television personality said: "Yeah, what if you survived and you can’t wipe your own ass, you’re pissing everywhere, sh—ting, can’t eat."
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The pact between Sharon and Ozzy was born out of a sad event. It was Sharon's father, Don Arden, who passed away in 2007 from Alzheimer's disease that led to the creation of this agreement.
In an interview with the Daily Mirror at the time, Sharon said: "We believe 100 percent in euthanasia, so [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. We gathered the kids around the kitchen table, told them our wishes and they’ve all agreed to go with it."
Because Sharon saw her father "suffer from the day he came back into my life in 2002 to the day he died in July," she stressed that she couldn't ever put her "kids through that."
She explained: "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."
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Sharon continued: "Some say the disease is hereditary so at the first sign I want to be put out of my misery."
In another interview with the publication seven years later, Ozzy also opened up about why he might one day consider physician-assisted suicide, saying that this now involved any "life-threatening condition."
In 2014, the classic rock legend said: "If I can't live my life the way I'm living it now — and I don't mean financially — then that's it...[Switzerland]."
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The Black Sabbath frontman continued: "If I can't get up and go to the bathroom myself and I've got tubes up my ass and an enema in my throat, then I've said to Sharon, 'Just turn the machine off.' If I had a stroke and was paralyzed, I don't want to be here. I've made a will and it's all going to Sharon if I die before her, so ultimately it will all go to the kids."
On September 12, the long-awaited second season of The Osbournes podcast made its comeback after a five-year hiatus.
