Former ‘Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills’ star Lisa Rinna is opening up about helping her 94-year-old father, Frank, with his assisted suicide that “took 45 minutes.”
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During the latest episode of her and her husband Harry Hamlin’s podcast, ‘Let’s Not Talk About the Husband,’ Lisa Rinna opens up in a deep and personal way about her father’s assisted suicide. Rinna, 61, further reveals that she and the rest of the family helped him with it. The conversation begins as Rinna and Hamlin talk about their parents getting older.
Hamlin, 73, says he put his parents into an assisted living home before they transitioned. Meanwhile, Rinna talks about her mother ending up in hospice with a hospice nurse. Elsewhere, her father ended up wanting an assisted suicide with a “death doula.”
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Lisa Rinna Recalls Helping Father With Assisted Suicide
Although Hamlin and Rinna didn’t plan to make this episode about her father’s assisted suicide — wanting to save the topic for a standalone episode — Rinna continues to dive in. She explains how it all went down with herself and half-sister, her father’s daughter, Nancy. Rinna says Nancy is 12 years older than her and grew up with her mother, not with Rinna.
However, for one year, Nancy, at 18, came to live with Rinna, Rinna’s mother, and their father, Frank. At this time, Frank was transitioning. Hamlin said that Frank’s quality of life had diminished” to the point that he just wanted to die. he added, that in Oregon, “you’re permitted to check out when you want to check out” due to the Death with Dignity Act.
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Rinna added, “When they set their mind to this, they’re ready.” She said her dad “was in pain” and “really unhappy” with his life in the end. Rinna explained that she felt torn about her dad’s decision. She said, “You want to support your loved ones. You want to support what they want to do, but you’re going to watch your parent kill themselves.” Because her dad “wanted it so badly,” her mom “signed off on it” and Rinna and her half-sister had to accept it as well.
She explained that the whole assisted suicide process took three to six months and required her dad to have two doctors sign off on his terminal illness, which they did. On the day of the procedure — which required Frank to drink a juice concoction that would end his life — Rinna said after he drank it, “it took 45 minutes.” She said “they just fall asleep,” and “it’s not anything gruesome.”
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