http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/424291/20130115/deaf-identical-twins-marc-eddy-verbessem-win.htm

Deaf identical twin brothers chose to end their lives by lethal injection after being told that they were going blind.

Marc and Eddy Verbessem of Putte near Antwerp, Belgium, had lived together and worked as cobblers their entire adult lives.

The devoted pair, who were born deaf, decided that they would rather die than never see each other again after being diagnosed with a genetic form of glaucoma, their family have revealed.

Despite objections from their older brother Dirk and their parents, Mary and Remy, the 45-year-old siblings applied for euthanasia under Belgian law and were granted the right to die.

Details of their story have just emerged.