The medical psychologist Athos Erotokritou in his new guide on euthanasia which he introduced on the College of Nicosia on June 6, 2024, refers the reader to a really fascinating bibliography, which additionally consists of the guide “The Executioner of Love”, by the internationally recognized American psychiatrist-psychotherapist and standard writer Irvin Yalom.
I mentioned the matter with Athos and reminded him that in my final article about Irvin Yalom, I wrote in regards to the euthanasia of his beloved spouse Marilyn. He was 87 years previous and affected by terminal most cancers.
Marilyn Yalom, who lived a cheerful relationship with him for seven many years, had requested him to assist her finish her life due to insufferable ache attributable to her terminal sickness. As Yalom describes in his 2020 autobiography A Matter of Loss of life and Life, the top of Marilyn's life got here at their California dwelling in November 2019 with deadly doses of remedy administered by their household physician, within the presence of of Yalom himself and their 4 kids. California is without doubt one of the US states that legalized euthanasia. On this guide, Irvin Yalom, who was 88 years previous on the time, additionally describes his personal journey of grief, mourning and loneliness within the months following the lack of his spouse.
Throughout that point, an sudden growth occurred in his life, when Yalom met German psychologist-psychotherapist Sakino Sternberg, related along with her, and three years later, in January 2024, married her. Born on June 13, 1931, Irvin Yalom celebrated his 93rd birthday final Thursday. His second spouse is 75 years previous. “Love is the antithesis of loss of life and is stronger than loss of life,” Athos Erotokritou informed me, whereas we had been discussing the “Irvin Yalom and Sakino Sternberg difficulty.” Athos referred me to his guide “The psychology and sexuality of previous age”, the place he writes that “age performs no position in love, as a result of love solely dies with the loss of life of the lover. Sexual perform can be extended in superior ages.
Love emotions, even essentially the most passionate ones, accompanied by deep emotions, might be felt by an individual, male or feminine, at any age – and that is maybe my strongest expertise as a psychotherapist. Time that passes, wrinkles the pores and skin, however not the soul. The soul is wrinkled by resignation – when enthusiasm is deserted…”.