When he was in his twenties, he enrolled in graduate school, studying chemistry, but instead of studying, he researched his father's suicide. He took the train to Ghent, where his father had worked, and interviewed all his colleagues and friends. Until Godelieva's death, her mother Tom had never given much thought to euthanasia, although she was vaguely in favor of it. "Distelmans was just a voice he heard on the radio from time to time. When the euthanasia law passed, he and his wife assumed that the law was for the elderly who were already dying (Aviv,