SEE REASONS WHY A YOUNG BRITISH WOMAN BEGS TO DIE AT SWISS CLINIC

A young woman has begged to die in a Swiss assisted suicide clinic after an insect bite eleven years ago left her bed-bound.
Kirsty Keep is just 23 years old but she's too weak to even open a door as she battles lupus following a tick bite.

She was bitten in her back garden when she was 12 - and is now begging her heartbroken mum to help her end her life.
Kirsty suffers from lupus, a condition where her immune system attacks healthy cells, tissue and organs, and possibly more illnesses that have been left diagnosed. It is often linked to genetics and hormones but can be brought on by infections, such as an insect bite.
Shortly after the bite, Kirsty was hospitalised for three weeks when a reaction spread to the size of a hand.

 

The bite left her suffering from Bell's palsy, which paralysed her facial muscles, as well as sudden and severe facial pain that felt like electric shocks.
And 18 months ago she began having seizures.
Speaking from her hospital bed, Kirsty said: "My bones feel like they're being snapped and my muscles ripped.
"It feels like there's someone inside me pulling my insides."
Kirsty's mum Theresa, from Maidstone, Kent, believes Kirsty is also suffering from Lyme disease, a bacterial infection that has similar symptoms to lupus.

Bed bound: Her lupus means she spends most of her time in bed

But results in the UK came back negative, so her family and friends are resorting to alternative tests.
Mum Theresa said: "When she has bad days you feel like you're watching her go.
"She's begged me to take her to Switzerland and said she doesn't want to do it any more.
"That's not something you want to hear from your daughter. You're heartbroken every day.
"Every few months, when she can't stop being sick, she has to come into hospital and go on a drip because she's dehydrated. All she wants is a normal life."