Celebrity Twins Die on the Same Day Aged 89

Famed twin sister entertainers Alice and Ellen Kessler died by joint assisted suicide at 89 on Monday at their home in Germany. A spokesperson for the German Society for Humane Dying (DGHS) told CNN that the Kessler Twins—as they were professionally known—had chosen “to die together on a specific date.” Last year, the duo told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that “the idea of one of us going first is very hard to bear.” “Their desire to die was well-considered, long-standing, and free from any psychiatric crisis,” DGHS spokesperson Wega Wetzel said. Medically-assisted dying, under certain circumstances, is legal in Germany as of 2020. Born in Nazi Germany in 1936, the Kessler Twins fled to West Germany at the age of 16, where they began their careers in professional entertainment. Th