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Everyone is missing the key point ...


Yes, Anne expressed her wish to die on more than one occasion. BUT she never once asked Georges to help her die. Georges, for all intents and purposes, murdered his wife. When he smothered he with the pillow he made sure that Anne would not realize what he was doing with the pillow and, indeed, she fought the suffocation. One poster here described it as euthanasia, others as a mercy killing. Both very wrong descriptions of what happened.

If i thought my husband would kill me if I were in the same condition as Anne, I would divorce him now. Something to think about for all couples.

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Please do not use the word "everyone" to imply we are all "missing the key point" because I am one of those posters that believed it was a mercy killing/euthanasia. You call it murder. I don't. Your opinion is YOUR opinion, not mine.

It is the body's survival instinct to fight the suffocation, and Anne would have physically reacted the same way even if she told George to put a pillow over her head.

If i thought my husband would kill me if I were in the same condition as Anne, I would divorce him now. Something to think about for all couples.
Let's hope you are never in that position, and make sure you have a living will. Your husband could die before you so you need to make sure you have a health care proxy if he is gone and your wishes known if you don't want the plug pulled. If you would rather have feeding tubes and breathing tubes and live your life in diapers as a vegetable with no quality of life and kept alive by artificial means, that is your prerogative.

After watching this movie it made me believe more than ever, that people have a right to die if they are incapacitated, cannot live and enjoy their life, there is no chance for recovery, they are suffering, and they want be able to end their lives with dignity and peace. They should be allowed to die in the comfort of their own home. We are kinder to our animals than to our suffering human beings.





Remember us, for we too have lived, loved and laughed

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We are kinder to our animals than to our suffering human beings.


Do you think that all those cats and dogs would thank us for having them killed? How many of them would ask us to kill them if we found a way to verbally communicate with them?

I believe that you have right to want to be murdered, but the others must have right to be free not to commit a murder.

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I don't understand why anyone is viewing it so black and white either way. It doesn't matter whether he killed her out of mercy. It's still murder legally (unless the laws of France are that different), but that's not really the point. The point is to sympathize with and consider the mix of feelings that were probably swirling through him: grief, empathy, longing, frustration, confusion, anger, regret, determination, exhaustion.

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I think Gambitt has got it right, and its definitely not a clear cut scenario.

One of the devastating and heartbreaking things I found was that Anne was clearly incapacitated, was aware (full or partially), and would know somewhere she was at the end of her life. But would she necessarily want to 'give up the ghost'.....without being in that situation, we would never know. but I can imagine it being frightening after a lifetime of what appears to be a successful, happy, and content life.

amazing achievement by Haneke with AMOUR. Incredible film!




Gran'pa was always the best

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Above all I just want to express what a devastatingly brave and astounding film this is. Emmanuelle Riva is nothing short of miraculous in the lead role. I view it as being right up there as one of the best films of certainly the last 2 decades.

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