“Schur, you remember our ‘contract’ not to leave me in the lurch when the time had come. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense… Talk it over with Anna and if she thinks it’s right, then make an end of it.”
Sigmund Freud was in severe pain from terminal cancer when he asked his friend and doctor Max Schur to end his suffering by administering an overdose of morphine. Freud’s daughter Anna had wanted to postpone the death of her father, but Schur convinced her it would be pointless to keep him alive. The neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis died at his home in London, he was 83 years of age.