Two famous twin sisters decided to die together in Germany on Monday and the government let them. Alice and Ellen Kessler were famous TV stars in Germany in the 1950s and 60s. The women had long expressed a desire to “leave together… on the same day,” and under Germany’s increasingly permissive end-of-life regime, they were able to schedule it like an appointment: two sisters, a doctor, a lawyer, and a legal framework that treats death as an organized service. Neither of them was known to be ill, although one had reportedly suffered a recent stroke. There is something undeniably dystopian about it. We’ve entered an era where governments and medical systems not only permit assisted death but facilitate it, normalize it, and in some countries aggressively promote it. Dying is no longer a mysterious threshold; it’s paperwork and protocol. And in a lonely, aging Europe struggling with declining birthrates and ballooning pension burdens, that trend is not happening in a vacuum. To many, the Kessler Twins’ final act looks like peaceful autonomy. To others, it looks like a warning: a society so detached from the sanctity of life that even a double death can be wrapped in a tidy press release. The post Two Sisters Walked Into Assisted Death Together. A Society Let Them. appeared first on Redacted.