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It was a miracle.
Chloe Cole survived the fall from the 13th floor.
But she was seriously injured, paralyzed, and in excruciating pain.
In January, he decided to end his life in a clinic in Switzerland. She turned 30 years old.
– There are no words for loss, says his mother Christina.
Chloe Cole lived in Los Angeles, United States, where she studied acting and worked as a model.
He was on a rooftop, 13 stories high, where he was waiting for a friend when he fell over the edge.
Chloe survived, miraculously, but with very serious injuries.
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The house that Chloe Cole fell from.
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Chloe Cole when she was treated in a hospital in Los Angeles in the United States after falling from the 13th floor. She had 38 fractures, injuries to the liver, spleen and kidneys and was paralyzed in the breast.
She had 38 fractures, injuries to the liver, spleen and kidneys, and was paralyzed from the breast. When the doctors were ready, they implanted 18 long screws in his spine, he underwent surgery, and he had metal and screws everywhere in his skeleton, legs, arms, and clavicle.
The accident happened in 2014. He was 24 years old.
“I don’t want to live like this”
Aftonbladet reported on Chloe in March 2015. She then returned to Sweden, to her home in Helsingborg.
It was full of hope, full of life.
But he didn’t think he was getting the care and rehabilitation he wanted. That she just “had to stay there and rot.”
Chloe suffered from incurable bedsores. She also suffered serious internal infections where all the metal was implanted. Finally, the right hip was removed and part of the femur was removed.
She had chronic pain.
Chloe then told Aftonbladet:
– I feel like I just want to die. I don’t want to live like this.
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Chloe Cole survived but was seriously injured after a fall from a roof on the 13th floor in the US in 2014. This photo was taken in the spring of 2015 when Aftonbladet met Chloe after the serious accident.
Her extinct future plans depressed her.
– Now I’m sitting here in a wheelchair. This was not how I had thought my life would be, he said.
I expected another miracle
But despite periods of despair, Chloe was constantly driven by her hope.
– He said it was important to follow his dreams, says mother Christina, 57.
Chloe wanted to go back to America.
He had set his sights on being able to walk again.
She expected a new miracle.
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Before the accident, Chloe Cole lived in Los Angeles where she worked as a model and studied acting.
When he couldn’t find help in Sweden, he returned to the United States in 2015, to a spinal cord injury rehabilitation clinic in Los Angeles.
– It was because of them that they had lost hope.
He lived for a time in the United States, regained his old life, lived with friends, and drove a car. The friends had started a fundraiser to pay for her rehabilitation.
That was Chloe’s last hope.
But the clinic finally announced that there was nothing to do.
– No one could help her, she was too hurt, says Christina.
Moved to sweden
There the dream of being able to walk again died.
He moved home to Sweden with his mother.
– It was nice taking her home, but nothing worked.
Chloe had chronic inflammation in her arm and spine.
– She felt rotten.
He received help from personal assistants and lived for his beloved cat, Lana.
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Chloe Cole with her beloved cat Lana. This is one of the last photos taken of him.
Today, Chloe is gone.
He decided to end his life in a suicide clinic in Basel, Switzerland.
– His body was completely exhausted. He had very severe nerve pain. He said it was like having his legs on fire. She couldn’t take it anymore.
Nothing bit the pain.
– She was never, never painless.
Towards the end, Chloe was in so much pain all over that she could hardly sit up anymore. Christina wishes that there had been more knowledge about nerve pain in healthcare in Sweden.
It has been five years since I met Chloe and Christina.
Years that for them were full of strong hopes, emotional struggles, loss of faith, abandonment and what Chloe finally came to consider as the solution to the pain and her difficult life situation.
– It was a very difficult time, it never turned out the way we wanted, says Christina.
“It is not an easy decision”
She describes Chloe as lucid, sharp, and honest.
– Chloe said all the time, if she “just” had been paralyzed, she would never have done this. It is not an easy decision. But it was so clear to her that she wanted a dignified ending.
Chloe was terrified at the thought of lying like a health care package.
How did you feel before your decision?
– It’s so horrible. . . I can see that I can’t use my ego on this, I understand her, I really understood her, says Christina.
– We had hope. But our hope was unfounded. It was a bubble.
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The accident left Chloe paralyzed and suffered severe chronic pain throughout her body. In January of this year, Chloe Cole decided to end her life at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland.
Chloe postponed the decision three times, each time for three months. She wanted time to write scrapbooks for her friends.
As a mother, Christina had double feelings. She didn’t want to lose her beloved daughter, but she didn’t want to suffer either.
Chloe said several times “Mom, you can’t do this.”
Terrible days
Christina says that as a parent, you are never prepared for your son to die.
– I wanted her to wait. You become selfish if you are a mother or a relative. But she said, I can’t do more.
The days leading up to the planned suicide were terrible for Christina.
– But I understood that life was not a better alternative.
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The spine broke at Chloe’s chest and she was operated on.
Chloe chose the Lifecircle clinic because she didn’t have to down the cocktail of preparations she was going to have. Instead, she received the drug intravenously. But she had to start the supply herself.
Dying in this way is called physician-assisted suicide.
He did not dare to look at the daughter
At her side, at this last moment, was Christina, two friends and a good friend of Christina.
Chloe sat on the bed as she took her last breath. Christina lay at their feet, hugging them tightly.
He didn’t dare look at his daughter. He had promised her that she wouldn’t break down, that she wouldn’t start crying, because then Chloe couldn’t be strong.
– I had to put on a bandage to keep my composure. I probably turned it off completely.
When she saw Chloe’s features afterwards, it was a different face, she was calm.
It was on January 8 that Chloe’s life ended.
She turned 30 years old.
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Chloe Cole when Aftonbladet met her in March 2015, a year after the fall accident. She was then 25 years old.
Christina claims that Chloe had wished for euthanasia to exist in Sweden, a position she now shares.
– I feel like if a person is as hurt as Chloe, you wish that complex had existed here, he says.
– It is a difficult matter and should not be easy decisions. But when you have seen that it can help people who have no life or hope left, I have changed.
Christina herself is now struggling to survive.
– You can die of pain. Chloe had a very strong personality. I miss her, yes, I miss her.
Tributes to the doctor
Christina also wants to pay tribute to the Swedish doctor, Staffan Bergström, who this summer helped a man sick with ALS die. This was after the patient’s trip to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland was canceled due to the corona pandemic.
The doctor then went to the police, who drew up a report of complicity and complicity in the murder. IVO, the Swedish Health and Care Inspectorate, has also submitted a report.
Staffan Bergström is Emeritus Professor of International Health.
– He’s a hero to me. I am suffering a lot and the only reason I have the strength to be here is to support the Swedish doctor, says Christina.
Chloe was a free soul. She chose for herself when the time came.
– No father or mother in the world could have stopped her, says Christina.
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