{"id":2165344,"date":"2025-11-18T23:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2165344"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:06:06","slug":"kessler-twins-die-by-assisted-suicide-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kessler-twins-die-by-assisted-suicide-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Kessler Twins Die by Assisted Suicide at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><em>Content warning: This story discusses assisted suicide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Kessler Twins<\/strong> have left this world together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alice Kessler<\/strong> and <strong>Ellen Kessler<\/strong>\u2014German twin sisters who performed as a variety entertainment duo\u2014died by joint assisted suicide at their home in Gruenwald, Germany, on Nov. 17, according to the German Society for Humane Dying (DGHS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They had been considering this option for some time,&#8221; the association, which advocates for the right to a self-determined death, said in a statement to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/celebrity\/kessler-twins-german-entertainment-duo-die-together-joint-assisted-sui-rcna244615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>. &#8220;They had been members of the organization for over a year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Explaining that those &#8220;who choose this option in Germany must be absolutely clear-headed, meaning free and responsible,&#8221; the organization noted that the sisters engaged in thorough discussions with a lawyer and a doctor before setting on this path.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision must be thoughtful and consistent,&#8221; the DGHS added, &#8220;meaning made over a long period of time and not impulsive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Assisted dying is legal in Germany, with the country&#8217;s constitutional court ruling in 2020 that an individual has the right to end their life and seek help from a third party under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: This story discusses assisted suicide. The Kessler Twins have left this world together. Alice Kessler and Ellen Kessler\u2014German twin sisters who performed as a variety entertainment duo\u2014died by joint assisted suicide at their home in Gruenwald, Germany, on Nov. 17, according to the German Society for Humane Dying (DGHS). &#8220;They had been considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kessler-Twins-Die-by-Assisted-Suicide-at-89.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165346,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165344\/revisions\/2165346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}