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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are following their "'til death do us part" vow decades after their marriage.
Ozzy's firing from Black Sabbath in 1979 led him to Sharon, who became his new manager at that time and pushed him to pursue his solo career. Although he was still struggling with substance abuse, he began enjoying success as a soloist and focused on his love life again after his divorce from Thelma Riley in 1982.
The same year, Ozzy and Sharon tied the knot, and they created a pact after the rocker's father, Don Arden, died in 2007.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's Assisted Suicide Pact Explained
On July 21, 2007, Ozzy's father died at the age of 81 years after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Following the loss, Ozzy and Sharon reportedly promised to undergo an assisted suicide if one of them - or both - suffers from it.
Jack asked the pair whether their plan was still on during the recent episode of "The Osbournes Podcast." Sharon first opened up about the pact in her memoir, "Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography," saying that they would go to the organization Dignitas to help them in their assisted suicides.
According to Sharon, they do not want it to "actually hurt," but Kelly still asked her what if they could survive the most common form of dementia. However, the matriarch does not believe so.
Her comment resonated with what she told Daily Mirror in 2007 after Arden's death.
"We believe 100 percent in euthanasia, so [we] have drawn up plans to go to the assisted suicide flat in Switzerland if we ever have an illness that affects our brains," Sharon continued. "If Ozzy or I ever got Alzheimer's, that's it - we'd be off. We gathered the kids around the kitchen table, told them our wishes and they've all agreed to go with it."
Ozzy also opened up about it in 2014 and revealed that the pact also included other life-threatening and terminal illnesses.
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