ALS part-time murder case A woman suffering from death suffers from SNS on July 30 at 19:35

In a murder case where two doctors killed a woman suffering from intractable disease and ALS with a drug, the SNS was used to communicate with both the woman who died and the doctor who was arrested. I answered the interview of NHK. The deceased woman complained of sickness and loneliness that the surroundings could not understand.

Both doctors, Kouichi Okubo (42) and Naoki Yamamoto (43), were suffering from intractable disease in which the muscles of the whole body gradually stopped working in November last year, and Yuri Hayashi of Kyoto city (at that time 51). In response to the request, he was arrested on the suspicion of a part-time murder because he had administered a drug and killed him.

Before the incident, a woman in her 20s in the Kyushu region who had an SNS exchange with Dr. Hayashi and Dr. Okubo answered the interview.

Since this woman suffers from an intractable neurological disease and wants to travel to a foreign country and be euthanized, she has been exchanging messages with Mr. Hayashi since last March.

In an exchange, Mr. Hayashi said, "The only reason I want to die is I don't want to live with this body, that's the only reason I have." But after all, I can tell only the patient. Everyone is busy with themselves," he said, saying that he was lonely and could not be understood by the people around him.

On the other hand, the woman has been exchanging messages with Dr. Okubo since around the same time, and it was revealed that Mr. Hayashi received a euthanasia consultation one month before the incident last October.

When the woman explained Mr. Hayashi's family and living conditions, there were replies saying "Will you go directly?" or "I will save my soul anyway."

When a woman worried about the loss of contact with Mr. Hayashi asked, Dr. Okubo said that he had not been contacted and sent a message such as "Is your life long?"

The woman said, “I have had Mr. Hayashi want to be alive, but in the end, I think it's kindness to respect what the person himself decides. There are times when I feel angry about the alienation and the treatment of healthy people."