The writer Isabel Allende is 73 years old and is full of life and projects, but hopes that when she comes to the point of death, “euthanasia is legal everywhere” so you can “die with dignity” without who insist on keeping “alive at all costs.”
The need to legalize euthanasia Isabel Allende spoke today in the House to present his new novel of America, The Japanese lover , a play about love, old age and death published five months ago.
With its visit to Spain, Allende begins a long two-month tour of several European countries that already translated his new novel, the number 22 of this writer who has sold over 65 million copies worldwide and whose work is translated 35 languages.
Posted by Plaza y Janes, The Japanese lover is a hymn to life and old age, “the best time to be and do what one would place “, and she claimed” love in old age “, a subject little discussed in the literature but Allende today defended with passion.
” I do not know if the passion is stronger when approaching death, but I think the need for intimacy and sharing life with another is very large in every age, and old age is even greater because it has less support, “the novelist said today.
Recently, Allende was separated from her second husband, lawyer and writer Californian William Gordon, after 27 years of marriage.
The writer just move house and all its neighbors “are new”. There is a, 87, who has a fourteen years younger than her lover and that “the visit from Thursday to Sunday.” Every Thursday, the writer, “curiously”, looks at the door to see get to loving neighbor had today, laughing.
And the lady of 87 years says that “the passion and sex remain the same “that when I was younger.
” Now that I’m alone, without a husband, I’m open to candidates who may be because I have need of passion and love like any other. The not weigh me, “claimed the author of books like The House of the Spirits , Paula , Daughter of Fortune or Ripper game .
The writer only writes novels that are “born of some obsession” and the idea of The Japanese lover he gave her friend when, Just walking one day in New York, she told her mother, 80, had “a Japanese gardener friend”
The friend refused her mother and gardener were lovers. – “the mother of one never has lovers, “said the novelist, but in his new novel itself is intense and prolonged love story between the protagonist, Alma Belasco, a Polish Jew whose parents sent a child to the United States away from its World War II, and a Japanese whose family also suffered the consequences of that war.
This novel Allende wrote in a special stage of his life, due to the separation from her husband. Lacked love and decided to “compensate” with this story.
“I’ve never had a Japanese lover. I do not know how to be, perhaps terrible, but I did think that if I at my age had much need love and so eager to be in love, why not going to be a common thing, “Allende said today.
The author of Portrait in Sepia believes that euthanasia It should be legalized “everywhere”. In the United States it is already legal in five states, and she hopes that in California, where he lives for 27 years, so be quick.
“Euthanasia is not encouraging suicide or kill people because I’m old. This is to help worthy dying for the terminally ill rather than keeping it alive at all costs “, today said the Chilean novelist.
In the United States there is a possibility of making a will in which specify how and when you want one that is death. She just did not want that “to live” if I had to be “plugged into a machine.” In your case, your son and your daughter will be those who “have the freedom and the right” to help her die.
Allende knows what it is to live with very elderly. His mother is 95 years old and stepfather, 100. “They are healthy and full of life. There is apply euthanasia.”
“But if my mother was suffering with a terminal illness, would I believe that will plug into a machine? No. I’ll be with her, holding her to die in the best way possible and, if need morphine, put it, “he claimed the writer today, in favor of helping someone to die” so legal and medical assistance “.
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