Love, Couple killed themselves Cause they can't Live without each other

           

An elderly Dutch couple kissed goodbye and died holding each other’s hands in a rare double euthanasia.

Nic and Trees Elderhorst, both 91, said it was their final wish to pass away together after 65 years of marriage.

According to reports, the couple both felt they could no longer live their lives due to ill health and didn’t want to go on alone if one of them died.

The pair married in 1952 and lived together in their home down of Didam, near Arnhem, ever since.

Nic had suffered a stroke five years ago and needed to take a gruelling course of antibiotics every day to keep himself alive.

Trees had cared for her husband in recent years while seeing her own health slowly decline.

The couple had previously filed for euthanasia and, after Trees was diagnosed with dementia earlier this year, doctors felt the conditions for them to end their own lives had been met.

The couple shared one last kiss before passing away together hand-in-hand