‘I’ll be gone by February’: the extraordinary life of the monk who wanted to end it his way
telegraph.co.ukmotor neurone disease), a rare neurological illness that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing the progressive loss of all voluntary muscle control.
Sufferers lose their strength and the ability to speak, eat, move, and eventually breathe. There is no cure and no effective treatment to halt or reverse the progression of the disease.One day in November, I took a flight to Gothenburg.
It was a Sunday and trains were scarce. It took almost two hours by rail and taxi to travel the 30 miles to Asa, the quiet coastal town where he lived, in a pleasant painted wood-frame house down a secluded tree-lined road.
The house was all blond wood and white walls; his wife Elisabeth is a ceramicist and the shelves and window ledges were lined with her vases, pots and sculptures.Lindeblad had round-the-clock care.
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