This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author.

In 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany’s highest judicial body, conjured a fundamental right to commit suicide, to assist, and be assisted therein. The ruling called suicide a “self-determined death” — i.e., death on demand — regardless of the reason, and perhaps even, age of the person who wants to die, as the court ruled that the right to suicide “is guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence.” Youth is a stage of a person’s existence. (Estonia’s highest court recently issued a similar ruling, while requiring competence.)

Now, famous German identical twins have committed joint assisted suicide — reported by the notorious assisted suicide pushers, People magazine — which oohed and aahed about the death of Brittany Maynard, publishing several cover stories on her doctor-prescribed death. From the story about the deceased twins:

The Kessler twins — renowned German sisters who reached international stardom for their post-war entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s — ended their lives together.

On Monday, Nov. 17, Alice and Ellen Kessler died at age 89 in their home near Munich after choosing medical aid in dying, German newspaper Bild reports.

According to the outlet, the sisters “no longer wanted to live” and “they had chosen to end their lives together.” Police were reportedly notified after the process was completed.

Did you get that? They just didn’t want to live — so they accessed death on demand.

For many among us, suicide is no longer considered a tragedy but is viewed as an empowering act. This is precisely the darkness into which the euthanasia movement is taking us, some jurisdictions faster, some slower. We should be debating whether becoming dead should be deemed a fundamental right, not the expedient nonsense we too often hear that it’s all about terminal illness (it isn’t) and that strict guidelines protect against abuse (they don’t).