Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne still have an assisted suicide pact in place, and it's not going anywhere, apparently. The pact was formerly revealed in the 71-year-old talk show's memoir released in 2007, Survivor: My Story — The Next Chapter. Sharon shared that the couple made plans to go to a Swiss physician-assisted suicide organization called Dignitas if either of them ever suffered from any illness affecting their brain. On the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast, which features the entire Osbourne family, discussion of the pact came back up.
Their 37-year-old son Jack asked if euthanasia was still in his parents' plans. “Do you think that we’re gonna suffer?” Sharon asked, while Jack replied, “Aren’t we already all suffering?”
“Yes, we all are, but I don’t want it to actually hurt, as well,” she responded. "Mental suffering is enough pain without physical. So if you’ve got mental and physical, see ya."
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Kelly, their 38-year-old daughter then chimed into the conversation. “But what if you could survive?” Sharon replied, “Yeah, what if you survived and you can’t wipe your own [expletive], you’re pissing everywhere, [expletive], can’t eat."
In a 2007 interview with the Daily Mirror, Sharon opened up about believing "100 percent in euthanasia,” adding that she and Ozzy had made plans to to go to the assisted suicide place in Switzerland if either of the got an illness that affected their brains. "If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer’s, that’s it — we’d be off. We gathered the kids around the kitchen table, told them our wishes and they’ve all agreed to go with it.”
The pact came about after Sharon's father, Don Arden, died from Alzheimer's in 2007. Because she saw her father "suffer from the day he came back into my life in 2002 to the day he died in July," she didn't want her kids to ever experience the same thing.
"At least with something like cancer you can communicate, say how you feel and explain why your body hurts," she said. "But my father deteriorated at such a rapid speed he became a shell of himself — dribbling, wearing a diaper, and tied into a wheelchair because he didn't realize he could no longer walk."
"Some say the disease is hereditary so at the first sign I want to be put out of my misery," she added. In a 2014 interview, Ozzy shared that their pact had now opened up to include any "life-threatening condition."
"If I can't live my life the way I'm living it now — and I don't mean financially — then that's it," he said at the time. "If I can't get up and go to the bathroom myself and I've got tubes up my [expletive] and an enema in my throat, then I've said to Sharon, 'Just turn the machine off.' If I had a stroke and was paralyzed, I don't want to be here. I've made a will and it's all going to Sharon if I die before her, so ultimately it will all go to the kids."
