"We lived and died together"
An elderly Warragul couple found dead at their home have left behind an emotional message.
Don and Iris Flounders made the recording in the hope it would help change euthanasia laws.
Eighty-one-year-old Don Flounders says terminal disease meant life was no longer worth living.
It was a decision he and his wife took together, even though she was not ill.
Propped up in bed, Don Flounders read his last testament.
"My quality of life is dreadful, my life has shrunk to this small bedroom. I am dependent on Iris. And my world has shrunk to this small bedroom. This is no life to live."
It is a message the couple and their adult children want the world to see.
"We've had a wonderful life together and we can die together - it gives me great peace," Don said.
Last Friday, as the world watched the Royal Wedding, a couple who've been married 60 years, lay down at their Victorian country home and took a deadly drug.
"I want to be with Don, now and always," Iris said. "We plan to drink the drugs together, and die together."
Don suffered the lung disease mesothelioma while Iris had problems, but was not dying.
"I am not terminally ill," Iris said. "But I suffer from a lot of ailments of old age."
Three years ago, 7NEWS first revealed their journey to Mexico to buy a drug banned in Australia.
They learned how from Philip Nitschke.
Dr Philip Nitschke, an Exit International Euthanasia campaigner, said: "Many people don't have the ability to get on a plane and fly to Mexico. If they get someone else to do it for them, that person can be looking at 14 years in jail."
The couple's family supported their decision.
In her final words, Iris thanked Dr Nitschke and her family. "We've been eternally grateful for the support and the love of our family," she said.
"Goodbye."
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