A recap of Lovelle’s 27 video diary entries
Lovelle Svart’s video diary entries touched on topics ranging from the need to talk about death and dying to the difficulty of saying goodbye to friends, from why she kept smoking to what you say to a person who has cancer. She recorded 27 videos between July 17, [...]
Lovelle Svart made a video diary entry less than an hour before she took the medication that would end her life.
She spoke after a day of personal goodbyes, storytelling and music.
“I feel so at peace,” she said. “I’ve had such a good time with friends. Today has been so wonderful.
“I danced the [...]
September 28, 2007 - “I feel so at peace”
Lovelle Svart’s cancer symptoms got the best of her this week. Intensifying pain, weakness, shortness of breath and stomach problems.
More strongly than ever, she is considering ending her life by taking the drug overdose that her doctor prescribed at her request under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act.
Lovelle says she wishes to die before [...]
September 24, 2007 - Life
Visits from close friends these days are bittersweet for Lovelle Svart, because she knows she may never see them again.
And as she nears death, Lovelle knows she won’t be able to say goodbye personally to all the people in her wide circle of friends and coworkers. “I don’t have time or energy,” she says.
A glib [...]
September 20, 2007 - Friends
When Oregonian readers or online viewers call Lovelle Svart “brave,” as many have in written comments responding to her video diaries, she scoffs.
“I’m not brave,” she says. “I’m simply not.”
Lovelle says she made a personal decision to speak out publicly about dying in general and her own death in particular, including the possibility she will [...]
September 20, 2007 - Brave?
Whether from the cancer or the medications she takes, or both, Lovelle Svart occasionally sees “things that aren’t there” — shadowy shapes, “like an animal or a person moving” across her line of sight.
Not a ghost or a poltergeist, she says with a laugh.
“It’s not something that scares me at all,” she says. “It has [...]
