This post contains discussion of suicide.
Earlier this year, rock legend Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack at the age of 76.
In the years leading up to Ozzy’s death, his wife Sharon Osbourne was quite public about her claim that the couple had made an assisted suicide pact together. As People points out, she first mentioned the matter in her 2007 memoir Survivor: My Story – The Next Chapter, stating that her and Ozzy would seek the Swiss assisted suicide organization Dignitas if either of them ever suffered from dementia.
“I would have just gone with Ozzy. Oh, yeah, definitely, I’ve done everything I wanted to do,” she said, before mentioning that the three children she shared with Ozzy — Aimee, Kelly, and Jack — are the reason why she ultimately decided against it.
“They’ve been…unbelievably, just magnificent with me, all three of them,” she said, before going into greater detail about an experience that also made her ultimately decide against assisted suicide.
“Years ago, when I had one of my mental breakdowns, I went into a little facility to help with my head,” she said. “There were two girls over there. They didn’t know each other, but they were in there, each [of their] mothers had committed suicide.”
“I saw the state that these two young women were in and what it had done to their lives, and I thought, I will never, ever, ever do that to my kids.”
Well, there you have it. You can watch the entire interview here.
Dial 988 in the United States to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The 988 Lifeline is available 24/7/365. Your conversations are free and confidential. Other international suicide helplines can be found at befrienders.org. The Trevor Project, which provides help and suicide-prevention resources for LGBTQ youth, is 1-866-488-7386.