Chanel Sebire Essay

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Chantal Sebire, a French school teacher, has been suffering from a rare cancer (Crawley 2008). The nasal cavity cancer or facial tumor, esthesioneurobalstoma, has been known to continuously damage one’s brain and would eventually be fatal (Crawley 2008). It would greatly affect the sufferer’s eyesight, sense of taste and smell (Crawley 2008). This was what 53 year old Chantal Sebire had to unbearably go through. She has three children (Samuel 2008) and was diagnosed with this cancer since year 2002 but her battle/ case for the right to be euthanized only surfaced in 2008 (Telegraph 2008). Below is a picture of Mrs. Sebire before and after the effects of her cancer.

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